Sentences with phrase «phallic male»

Contemporary critic Laura Mulvey understood the photograph as a comment on the «phallic male gaze» and the «fetishization» of women.

For this work, Benglis smeared Day - Glo paint across the gallery floor invoking «the depravity of the «fallen» woman» or, from a feminist perspective, a «prone victim of phallic male desire».

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That calls for a vaginal theology and a phallic theology, at the very least, which will regard as significant, central and irreducible data for theological reflection the experience of being female or male, including but not confined to genital sexuality.

Some experts had already concluded that ptyctodonts were having sex because the male pelvic fins have phallic extensions called claspers, similar to the ones modern sharks and rays use to deposit their semen inside females.

Snyder parades the blue - skinned Dr. Manhattan's sculpted physique and semi-erect penis through the second half of the film as a definite phallic talisman of male domination overseeing humanity.

Iconic pieces on view, spanning sculpture, photography, and painting, include phallic sculptures by Sarah Lucas and Lynda Benglis, photographic portraits by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, and plucky paintings of male genitalia by Celia Hempton.

Woolford's performance explores the central role given to the male sexual organ in both American art and politics, perpetuating the tradition of phallic humor in popular culture.

Since the 1960s, Judith Bernstein has been making aggressively phallic, clamorously energetic paintings and drawings that send up both male chauvinism and the military - industrial complex.

Hockney also turned to his openly gay friend Mark Berger as the subject for several prints showing the young artist being rescued by a male lover from a vagina dentata and then threatened by a giant phallic snake.

In her series of «Accumulation Sculptures», everyday objects are covered with stuffed, phallic textile protuberances, a poignant theme that challenged the caucus of male critics.

The Men and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual power.

Throughout the exhibition, the viewer encounters many of Lucas's headless Bunnys, moves through a garish crimson room with male torsos on a massive scale, and ends their journey with the artist's most recent series «Penetralia», which combines female and male forms in characteristically phallic sculptures.

However, rather than being perceived as passive objects of male pleasure as stereotyped by the pornography industry, the women here are seen as active protagonists; they are given agency and the masculine element, symbolised by phallic shaped fruits and meats, becomes an object for their consumption.

His varied output includes 18 - foot - tall phallic «stalagmites» dripping with seemingly viscous urethane; rough - hewn ceramics with primordial glazes; paintings done with Robitussin - red nail polish or graffiti - like spray - paint; sculptures of smudged and scratched white minimalist forms; bus - sized cages on wheels; and videos of frustrated male pornstars masturbating to no end.

Blobs of paint morphed into puffy creatures, and more recently into phallic - nosed alpha males impotently shooting at one another.

Untitled (2010) shows a recurrent influence in the practice of Daniel Sinsel, namely a kind of latent eroticism of neoclassicism, which is reflected in his use of the male form and phallic symbols.

The piece challenged the male - dominated world of Abstract Expressionism — the paintbrush became phallic, and the horizontal orientation recalled Pollock's drip paintings.