Robert Berlind in ‘Art and Old Age’ notes that ‘in a society enthralled by the ideals of youth and productivity, the aged, collectively, become the “other”’.
Critically investigate how older artists have visually responded to this social ‘othering’.
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Some references that you can use:
(I said 16 references in the choices but you can change that)

The Ageing Body
– Beauvoir, Simone, Old Age (London: Penguin, 1977)
– Berlind, Robert (ed.), Art Journal, Vol. 53, No.1, Art and Old Age (Spring, 1994)
– Blomberg, Katja, ‘Beyond Paradise’ available via https://www.melaniemanchot.net/1998/09/15/look-at-you-
loving-me-text-2/
– Bytheway, Bill, ‘Visual Representations of Late Life’ in C. A. Faircloth (ed.), Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience (Walnut Creek, Lanham & Oxford: Altamira
Press, 2003), pp. 29-53
– Chevirer, Jean-Francois, ‘The Life of Forms: Fragmentation and Montage’ in J. Coplans, A Self-Portrait, 1984, 1997 (New York: Contemporary Art Centre, 1999), pp.140
-155
– Coplans, John interviewed by Robert Berlind, Art Journal, Vol. 53, No.1 (Spring, 1994), pp.33-34 17

– Coplans, John, A Body (Powerhouse Books, 2002)
– Coplans, John, ‘Seeing from Inside’, MoMA, No.47 (Spring, 1988), p.3
– Faircloth, Christopher A., ‘Introduction – Different Bodies and the Paradox of Aging: Locating Aging Bodies in
Images and Everyday Experience’ in C. A. Faircloth (ed.), Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience
(Walnut Creek, Lanham & Oxford: Altamira Press, 2003), pp.1-26
– Frankel, David (ed.) & Nixon, Nicholas, The Brown Sisters: Forty Years (New York: MOMA, 2014)
– Freeth, Steve, ‘Nude Descending Staircase (with Zimmer Frame) (1999), accessible via:
https://www.elladreyfus.com/gallery.php?galleryid=4&page=reviews#review18
– Frueh, Joanna, ‘The Erotic as Social Security’, Art Journal, 53:1, 1994, pp.66-72
– Galassi, Peter. “Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters.” MoMA, vol. 2, no. 8, 1999, pp. 31–33.
www.jstor.org/stable/4420399.
– Hammer, Martin, The Naked Portrait: 1900-2007 (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2007)
– Higgs, P. & McGowan, F., ‘Aging, embodiment and the negotiation of the Third and Fourth Ages’ in Kampf,
A., Marshall, L. & Petersen, A. (eds.), Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine (London & New York:
Routledge, 2013), pp.21-34
– Hopkinson, Amanda, ‘Melanie Manchot and her Mother’, Portfolio, 29, accessible via
https://www.melaniemanchot.net/1999/09/15/portfolio-29/
– Marter, Joan. “Joan Semmel’s Nudes: The Erotic Self and the Masquerade.” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1995, pp. 24–28. www.jstor.org/stable/1358571.
– Moeschel, Peter, ‘Images of the Body: On Sensory Perception in Medicine and in Everyday Life’ in G. Brandstetter (ed.), Remembering the Body (Ostfildern – Ruit:
Hatje Cantz, 2000), pp.286-300
– Millner, Jacqueline, ‘Age and Consent’ (1998) in Age and Consent catalogue, accessible via: https://www.elladreyfus.com/gallery.php?galleryid=4&page=reviews#review18
– Ribbat, Christoph. “‘Out of It’? Old Age and Photographic Portraiture.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 56, no. 1, 2011, pp. 67–84.
www.jstor.org/stable/23317639.
– Townsend, Chris, Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking (Prestel, 1998), pp102-4