Tee Corinne
| Tee A. Corinne | |
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Tee A. Corrine
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| Born |
Linda Tee Cutchin November 3, 1943 St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Died | August 27, 2006 (aged 62) Southern Oregon, United States of America |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Photographer, visual artist, writer and activist |
Tee Corinne (November 3, 1943 – August 27, 2006) was a photographer, author, and editor notable for the portrayal of sexuality in her artwork. According to Completely Queer : The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia, "Corinne is one of the most visible and accessible lesbian artists in the world."
Corinne was born and grew up in Florida. Her mother introduced her to principles and techniques for making visual art. According to Corinne, "I have seldom succeeded in keeping a diary, but I have almost always carried a drawing pad, and since my eighth year, I have also had a camera."
Corinne spent her freshman year of college (1962-3) studying art at Newcomb College in New Orleans, LA, where she studied painting with Ida Kohlmeyer. She then transferred back to Florida, where she earned a B.A. in printmaking and painting (with minors in English and history) from University of South Florida, Corinne went on to get an M.F.A. in drawing and sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1968. After a few years of teaching and backpacking in Europe, she became attracted to the back-to-the-land movement and communal living. She was also, in her words, sliding into suicidal depression.
"Something didn't feel right. Nowadays they talk about over-achieving adult children of alcoholics and the problems they have with depressions . . . Around the age of thirty I realized that art could no longer solve my problems . . . I found therapy, separated from my husband, became involved with women and joined the Women's Movement. I felt better."
Corinne began exhibiting and publishing art and writing in the mid-1960s.
Her first notable work was in 1975, and is still in print today. Aged 27, she realised that although her art education had enabled her to depict male genitals, she had not observed her own since she was a child. "I knew that the things we don't have names for, or images of, are the ones we label crazy or bad. I believed that reclaiming labial imagery was a route to claiming personal power for women." She decided to produce artistic images of vulvas, and self-published the Cunt Coloring Book, reclaiming the word "cunt"; it was later issued by a publisher as Labiaflowers.
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