...by DINITIA SMITH (NYTimes, May 1, 2004)

Just came across this and loved it. Would love to hear what everyone thinks about this one? Any issues you'd really like to discuss from here?

I prefer Saville's to Freud's, myself, but I think both are interesting and compelling. Two more links for your contemplation and delectation:

Mary Mc's Fat Acceptance Fat Art and Artists page. List of links to fat art. I love some of these, perhaps most particularly this one--www.artmozaik.com/Curves.html

Adipositivity Project, at <www.artmozaik.com/Curves.html. I love this project, I love the artist, and I even love her name--Substantia Jones.

Thoughts?

Hi, all,

I was photographed recently for a story on feeding for a UK newspaper, and the photographer was talking about taking inspiration from Jenny Saville's paintings. I hadn't seen them in a while, so I went to look afterwards.

Her style is difficult for some people, but I'm always really taken with her work. So I thought about starting this thread for people to post images of and links to images of fat bodies in art works, from either famous works or your own.

Here are two fat blogs with some images to have a look at:

tinyurl.com/5cm3m8

tinyurl.com/5cm3m8

What do you think of these works? Do you have a favourite fat artist? Do you like looking at paintings, sculpture, and photography of fat bodies? Comments, please!

Besides Dawn French's one and this one, does anyone know any other fat positive documentaries?

I was wondering if we should start a little campaign. Like every time we find a new publication that is anti-dieting (even if not happy with fat? only if happy with fat?) we could send a standard thank you e-mail, saying 'Your publication has helped someone today--me. Many thanks.'

It must be hard to buck the trend all the time, and be isolated by all your professional peers. It must be wickedly hard to get published and to advance your career. I was just trying to imagine how to be encouraging to such folks.

Here's a little piece from New Scientist--and yes, I read it pretty regularly, so no swipes!

www.newscientist.com/article/dn19406-losing-weight-may-pollute-the-blood.html

Here are the first two paragraphs, as a bit of incentive to read the rest, which is quite short:



Shall we start a pool on how much press this gets in comparison to some new study telling us why we're all dying from fat? <sigh>

This article appears in the Times Higher Education magazine:
tinyurl.com/2uqnjqj
I was delighted to see it, but it made me think how hard it must be for medical researchers who buck the prevailing wisdom.

I suddenly wondered if there were any way we could support researchers, or help them feel like what they're doing is important... I dunno.

Thoughts?

I agree--I had forgotten it, but I liked it at the time.