Highly
sexualized imagery and language have since become ubiquitous in mainstream culture and have shifted the context and reaction surrounding the Fuck Paintings, once dismissed as too explicit and because of Tompkins's position as a female artist with a sex - positive attitude.
Tompkins in particular explored the extreme edges of feminist politics and
sexualized imagery.
Following artists like Louise Lawler, Collier questions the nature of the photograph and specifically
sexualized imagery.
An essay by curator Debra Bricker Balken traces the threads of the debate through the 1910s and 20s, and also addresses the appearance of
sexualized imagery in nearly all of these artists» works, a phenomenon that ironically unifies the two seemingly opposed camps.
Not exact matches
Rieck combines
imagery of highly
sexualized historical masterpieces that are on public display along with models extrapolated from 1950's and 60's commercial magazines.
Shot during her 2015 residency at Fahrenheit, the work follows a group of adolescents whose playfully
sexualized dialogue is interspersed with Prouvost's own voiceovers and richly tactile
imagery.
It doesn't help that we live in a hyper -
sexualized world with borderline pornographic
imagery at every turn and temptation always at our fingertips.