Sentences with phrase «idealised females»
The oft seen males lusting at idealised females is flipped so that we see - oh of course!
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Throughout the history of art, the female nude has been enjoyed as an object of male delectation, idealised and airbrushed, shown looking coyly away.
The work on display by female artists indicates the extensive range of the exhibition: Hannah Wilke (who died that year), whose autobiographical works dealt directly with female iconography as well as the effect of cancer on her own body; the performative, body - based work of Cheryl Donegan, referencing both video and gestural painting; the more traditional yet highly stylised and idealised portraits of Elizabeth Peyton, and the critical performance and media work of Coco Fusco.
Through painting, photography, installation art and performance, the artist uses her own body as the subject matter to examine and problematise notions of the idealised erotic female subject.