Sentences with phrase «objectifying gazes»

A testament to Lacan's theory of identity as it pertains to the objectifying gaze and the devouring attentions of the masculine in horror cinema?

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

Other artists find more subtle ways to critique the objectifying gaze, to make pictures about sex that are not about power and subjugation.

The human figures that appear in Petros's works are often engaged in acts of active observation, having their faces disguised or turned away from the potentially objectifying gaze of the viewer.

Not exact matches

I don't mean to objectify you when I gaze admiringly as you browse in the bookstore (although rest assured, I wouldn't come up to you and gush), or when I tweet to an adult blogger with CP that I find her inspiring.

The most intimate aspects of our lives, in particular our sexual and religious feelings, need to be shielded from the objectifying and trivializing gaze of the public, and so shame can provide a sort of protective function.

Like Siegel, Friedkin takes an atypical approach to the gaze, objectifying McConaughey (who is, like Eastwood was in 1971, in his early forties, undergoing a career reboot).

It's an exploitation movie that knowingly abuses the male gaze and then turns that uncivilized, leering lens on its head, placing us squarely in the shoes of its brutalized angel of vengeance (Matilda Anna Lutz), as she's objectified by her married lover (Kevin Janssens) and two other animals she's literally flown in to spend a scandalous weekend with, before becoming a piece of meat they literally hunt in the desert after she's violated by their most mulish member.

Polarizing both critics and audiences, it's a dark, lurid satire on how female beauty is objectified through the male gaze, as well as a visceral homage to the works of Brian De Palma, David Lynch, Dario Argento and, of course, Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Usually, when we talk about the male gaze, we talk about it in terms of objectifying or sexualizing women.

And in an exhibition that includes a number of arguably un-Pop artists, where is Yoko Ono, Lee Bontecou, Carolee Schneemann — or even Colette, who knowingly transformed herself into the objectified object of the male gaze?

From the Venus of Willendorf to Raphael's Madonnas, Rubens's raped Sabines, Picasso's jilted lovers, and de Kooning's man - eating females, the standard gaze was that of the male, and what it gazed upon was the objectified female body.

They were concerned with shifting both the objectifying male gaze and the objectified female gaze.

Wenjue Zhang: In my artistic practice, I make explicit use of my body as a tool of power, with the idea that the female body, which is objectified by the male gaze, can redirect the domination relationship between man and woman.

The works in the international group exhibition «Un certain regard» all objectify the body and test the boundaries between gazing and staring, to different degrees.

Through the process of painting, Butler is able to address not the object and its psychology, as much as the way in which it is transformed by the artist's gaze that objectifies it.

«In traditional painting, across the centuries of the nude, there's a particular kind of gaze that's implied between a male viewer and a to - some - degree objectified female nude subject.

By presenting identity as fluid and malleable, Opie's subjects are presented as powerful and self - determining, thus subverting the notion that the gaze objectifies the subject.

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.

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.

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

In the first of a three - part series responding to the All Too Human exhibition, an artist, historian and philosopher explore the concept of the gaze within the visual arts, its power to objectify or be objective, create intimacy or distance.