The Medusa Head

The image of the Medusa, her hair a tangle of snakes, her face an awful aspect of what had, in earlier times, been a symbol of female wisdom, looms over the lives of three artists of the 1970s. The Vietnam War is coming to an inglorious end as the so-called sexual revolution is changing the patterns of life for a new generation. Not unlike today, a sense of chaos and rebellion is sending people out into the streets to express anger and frustration.

In mythology, Minerva punished Medusa when ...