Sentences with phrase «male gaze»

For those who wear it because they feel it protects them from the male gaze, there is also the paradox that in forcing them to remove it the employer implicitly accepts a greater responsibility to protect them.

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Here, Rist appears to swallow the male gaze and crap it back out.

To mention a few, Lisa Bartolozzi's essay on painting techniques shows how incessantly experimental painting has always been; Vincent Desiderio looks deeply into figurative painting's» technical narrative»; Alexi Worth's hypothesizes «the invention of clumsiness» after photography hit the 19th c. painting world; Donald Kuspit describes some of the impact Freud had on the figure; Kurt Kauper explains kitsch and Jule Heffernan «the male gaze»; Laurie Hogin examines the politics of figurative painting; and John Jacobsmeyer and Nicola Verlato each discuss the meanings of spatial organization via perspective, the camera obscura, 3 - D modeling, and cyberspace.

Despite her complicated output, Kruger's practice often becomes buried under truisms of the Pictures generation — the male gaze, consumer culture, and appropriation.

Features female stereotypes and the male gaze directed at women (as sex symbol, victim, and so on).

The Huffington Post shares a list of eight radical feminist artists from the 1970s who shattered the male gaze.

Whether making deliberately tacky object paintings incorporating images of truncated sex workers, or in her recent paintings rife with art historical references, she has repeatedly touched on gender issues, challenging notions associated with the male gaze.

(With contemporary retrospection, it treats woman as the object of the male gaze.)

Through large - scale, emotionally engaging works, the South African artist touches upon the male gaze, unjust societal...

The works stage a self - reflexive enquiry into ways of looking, subversively re - evaluating the traditional «male gaze» of art history.

In art the female body as seen through the male gaze had existed for centuries; for Feminist artists this was their chance to take back control and assert themselves.

Peyton's feminization of her — frequently male — subjects intriguingly problematizes the «male gaze.»

Take in an artist talk with Awol Erizku, who challenges the traditional idea of the male gaze, Fiona Banner as she talks language with the Public Art Fund, or head to the Fashion Institute of Technology for a panel discussion on art in the age of surveillance.

Unlike her earlier Film Stills series, the person projected here is not an available seductress presented for the male gaze but instead an emotionally ambiguous adolescent.

Participating in the group show is May Hands with a series of sculptural paintings entitled «Feather Duster Paintings» (2014) Sandra Vaka Olsen with a photo series called «Sunshield» (2014), Cory Scozzari with a new body of work titled «Crossfire or five years old running behind you at the beach» (2014) and Yves Scherer with a work that attempts to redirect the male gaze titled «Persian Rug» (2014).

Organised by Marie Beckmann and Julie Gaspard of EVBG, the weekend programme will feature video work by four artists who use the lens and the «digital realm» to disrupt the control of the male gaze, reclaiming their bodies «for their own to present how they wish, be it silly, funny, confronting or sexual, off - putting or desired.»

For example, there is no mention of psychoanalysis nor of Laura Mulvey's seminal article, «Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,» where the feminist theorist and filmmaker, writing in the British film journal Screen in 1975, first used the term «male gaze» to describe directors to render female characters objects of desire for the male viewer.

Her conceptual photographic «self portrait» scenes explore and question accepted female roles, cultural perceptions of race and gender, and, in the period covered here, a corruption of the male gaze.

As my previous body of work involved the emotional dynamic between 2/3 people in any given space I decided that the most powerful image here which also moved the Nude genre of painting further, was to paint live in strip clubs with the visual presence of the patron, the male, the male gaze included in the dynamic of each painting.

Beautifully presented, the exhibition addresses urgent questions of female sexuality, the male gaze in female dress and investigates the fault - line between the respectable and the obscene.

The male gaze — derived from a male audience and created by male artists — was intended to disempower women, to devour and objectify them.

As female artists are celebrated in major galleries worldwide and as overworked city - dwellers flock to life - drawing classes, Banner continues to re-invent the nude — a genre traditionally associated with the male gaze.

While the exhibition features exclusively female identifying artists, many of the artworks still objectify the male and female body as a hypersexual site for pleasure and are easily consumable by the male gaze, much like the media this show purports to stand in opposition to.

British artist Sarah Lucas can be seen in Verhoeven's use of furniture and inanimate objects to symbolise the female form, breaking it down into parts rather than viewing as a whole — a metaphor for the male gaze.

Modern art history is full of women trying to buck the male gaze and the inherent inequality that comes with it — from the Guerilla Girls (who once asked «do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?»)

Through large - scale, emotionally engaging works, the South African artist touches upon the male gaze, unjust societal pressures on women, and the sexual empowerment / exploitation of the female body.

The cast of characters in Bent Idle confronts the viewer with a fuck you to the male gaze.

On a smaller scale, this summer, Cheim & Read in New York staged a striking challenge to the male gaze, presenting works by women portraying men, including phallus sculptures from Louise Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis, and Sarah Lucas.

Anja Salonen's paintings take on the male gaze as it is experienced by the female.

I'm also a longtime feminist, and hope my work serves as a critique of the male gaze.

«Sarah Lucas: Good Muse» presents the sculptures of Sarah Lucas in dialogue with the Rodin collection to challenge the male gaze of Rodin's palpable eroticism with a decidedly female sense of pleasure.

Challenging accepted social conventions including the mechanisms of the art industry, these artists sought to reconfigure, and ultimately reshape, the prevailing iconography of «woman» as the passive muse surrendering herself to the male gaze.

By calling the series simply Hands, he wanted to accentuate the profundity of the female pleasure and self - awareness regardless of the omnipresent male gaze.

Although in the early 1960s the painterly / performative action was still a male domain (with a few notable exceptions such as Carolee Schneemann), by the 1970s, as «A Bigger Splash» clearly demonstrated, many influential women artists — including Marina Abramović, Lynda Benglis, Valie Export, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman — were active in the field, rupturing the idea of the male gaze as something universally taken for granted.

Each artist claimed his or her vision as an African American, intervening in artistic conventions that assume a white male gaze.

Self's inclusion of subtleties like a flared hand on the figure's knee in Carma or the coquettishly crossed arms in Cross, make it known that the characters are aware of the male gaze and, as a result, ready to pose.

More crucially, she was championed by American critic Rosalind Krauss, who saw her photographs — perhaps somewhat predictably — as an attempt to resist the male gaze (Krauss has written that Woodman exhibits a tendency to «camouflage» herself, attempting to «hide» even as she stands in front of the camera).

Lindström's work was at this time centered on a narrative with focus on a female experience where the male gaze and patriarchal structures were investigated.

Building on Conceptual identity art, borrowing from art history and 1970s blaxploitation extravagance, they subvert prevailing notions of beauty and taste and subvert the male gaze while offering resounding proof that the political, not only the personal, can also be stunningly pictorial.

Yet, this substitution — of the female body for the male body — is more than an inversion of conventional representations of gender (the woman as the object of a male gaze).

I'm interested in interjecting the portraiture canon with brown and black bodies to further complicate heteronormative perception of male identity, the male to male gaze, and the intersectionality of gender fluid and queer bodies that are not often discussed or represented in history, and marginalized in our society.»

A handful zing, like the sly poster that puts black bars across the eyes of male and female headshots, indicating the old - fashioned pornography of the dominant male gaze that fuels the problem.

By abstracting the colors, adding adornments to their bodies, and focusing on the mystery that is the woman, Lindsay attempts to push the male gaze towards adoration rather than objectification.

Current sexist attitudes and other breaches of human rights, such as female infanticide, bride burnings, girls denied educational opportunities, and even the press» recent trivialization of our Secretary of State, can be traced to the male gaze.

The results of their project suggest an intensity of exchange that turns the traditionally objectifying relationship of sitter and artist into one of feedback and mirroring which challenges the dominance of the objectifying male gaze in art.

In addition to the traditional live models she works from, Stump has begun incorporating found imagery as source material, focusing specifically on deconstructing the male gaze present in the photographic imagery of vintage men's magazines.

Their highly sexualised appearance became the focus of academic debate and prompted the exploration of the fetishized image of women and the male gaze in general.

The NYC - based artist addresses «issues of branded identity; age and body estimation; catastrophe culture; and online agency via static, dynamic and interactive «selfie» imagery», through self - portraiture inspired by women artists who turn the camera away from the male gaze and onto their own image.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.