Artforum International, June 22nd, 1993
It is a tale passed down through the ages, a prophetic conjuring of man's most basic instincts, a dreamy lullaby in some retellings, a nightmare in others. In written form Cinderella dates back to the ninth century--by 1893, Marian R. Cox had catalogued 345 variations, among them the familiar Charles Perrault version, published in France in 1697. Since then, endless reworkings have appeared, sparking all manner of rumination and elucidation on the significance of the little girl from the ashes. She has become the fodder for psychoanalytic inquiry and the stuff of pop-psychology success (see ...
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