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Wes Civilz, “Wikipedia erasures of articles of famous women
Wikipedia erasures of articles of famous women.
Wes Civilz
« SMURFETTE FROM WIKIPEDIA »
Method:
—highlight entire Wikipedia article —copy and paste to Word document —move through entire text erasing what I want to —the fragments I keep must be put in angle quotes « » —every fragment must stay exactly as the original —I must keep fragments in their original sequence
« Smurfette as she originally appeared (left)
and
after Papa Smurf turned her into a real Smurf (right) »
« Smurfette (French: La Schtroumpfette) » « was created by evil wizard Gargamel, the Smurfs’ enemy, in order to spy on them and sow jealousy.
However, she decides that she wants to be a real Smurf and Papa Smurf casts a spell that changes her hair from black to blonde »
« She is the love interest of almost every Smurf »
« a source of problems between the Smurfs »
« the inclusion of Smurfette in the cartoon version of The Smurfs was likely to serve as an object of heterosexual desire for the other Smurfs and to end speculation arguing that the Smurfs were gay »
« Papa Smurf » « performed “plastic smurfery” on her »
« Smurfette realized the trouble her continued presence was causing, and decided to leave Smurf Village. »
« She was magically created from blue clay, “sugar and spice but nothing nice, crocodile tears, half a pack of lies, a chatter of a magpie, and the hardest stone for her heart”. »
« CHARIS WILSON FROM WIKIPEDIA »
Method:
—highlight entire Wikipedia article —copy and paste to Word document —move through entire text erasing what I want to —the fragments I keep must be put in angle quotes « » —every fragment must stay exactly as the original —I must keep fragments in their original sequence
« Jump to: » « Helen Charis Wilson » « May 5, 1914 – November 20, 2009 »
« most widely known as a subject »
« house near Carmel, California »
« dropped her first name as a young girl and became known as Charis, which means » « sunbathing without a swimsuit »
« developed a reputation at school » « starting a “self-control” club »
« initiates had to lie in a tub filled with frigid water »
« led to her being expelled from the » « parents »
« then » « She visited » « art » « and conundrums. »
« she was too bright to stay in Carmel. »
« on to Sarah Lawrence College. »
« enrolling in and then dropping out of » « self-esteem »
« moved into the attic of » « an unwanted pregnancy. »
« she was driven by “a kind of angry despair… [and was] aware even at the time that I was in bad shape and moving toward worse.” »
« It was then that her life changed. »
« Her years with Weston »
« Weston » « saw “this tall » « girl, with fine » « face, well-freckled, » « twice as alive as anyone »
« whose eyes most likely saw twice as much as anyone »
« 31 photographs of her nude form »
« a series of nudes of Wilson, beginning with an iconic study of her in the doorway of » « an isolated area of massive sand dunes. »
« Together they traveled 16,697 miles in 187 days. »
« Charis is in Reno getting a divorce. »
« At the time of her death she » « Jump » « ed » « up »
« Jump up » « Charis »
« Jump up ^ » « Eloquent Nude » « of » « Cached time »
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« Categories: American artists’ modelsAmerican women photographers1914 births2009 deaths »
