«Sexual Politics,» which featured work by artists like Barbara Kruger, Adrian Piper, and Mary Kelly, explored the tension
between essentialist and constructionist approaches to art.
Are we forced to choose
between an essentialist view of religion, on the one hand, and conceptual relativism, on the other?
Not exact matches
He gives attention to the work of Hunter Guthrie who combines
essentialist and existentialist doctrines by distinguishing
between the essential and existential Egos.
In a naturalist and
essentialist perspective, [5] these differences are nothing but the expression of innate and natural differences
between the sexes.
Micchelli writes: «In her highly informative essay on the exhibition's website, curator [Barbara] Stehle takes issue with an
essentialist agenda that would split aesthetic inclinations
between male and female: «For the 9 women in the show, the point was never to make a distinction
between the genders.
In that sense, the mounting heat of the work helps us break with cold
essentialist and reductionist - based opinions about each other, and to visualize all the innocent visible and invisible interactions that occur
between and within our habitual perceptual modalities.