Abstract
This paper investigates fashion model Kate Moss as an icon of postfeminist disorder by unpacking artist Marc Quinn's recent sculptures of her. A feminist media-studies analysis elucidates Quinn's interpretation of Moss as ‘a knotted Venus of our age' by interrogating his textual juxtaposition of Eastern and Western symbolism. It reveals that Moss offers meanings of female beauty and sexuality that play with notions of indulgence and discipline, and the blurred interconnections between the two underlie her aesthetic and celebrity status. Quinn's depictions lend themselves to an interpretation of the cultural conflicts that surround the pursuit and embodiment of femininity in our contemporary epoch. In this light, Moss' representations and lifestyle situate her as a cultural agent of postfeminist disorder who advocates powerful and problematic messages that commodify cultural meanings of the female body.
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