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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Women in art"”.
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
Two important mythological figures emerged in East German art in the 1980s: Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, and Penthesilea, the Amazon warrior queen. Christa Wolf’s 1983 novel, Cassandra, exerted a profound influence on the pacifist movement and enhanced women’s gender consciousness during this …
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
… archive is marred by a history of violence, particularly in its reductionist and hypersexualized portrayals of Black bodies, especially those of Black women. This problem is rooted in colonialism, racialized misogyny, and the commodification of Black bodies for the entertainment and …
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Sexuality: Social and Cultural Constructs of Women Represented through Art
… or mentally. Societal rules have always determined the constructions of gender both accepted and taboo. My research explores how these social constructs pertaining to sexuality began and how they have been perpetuated throughout history in art. Because of my personal struggles with social …
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PHILOSOPHIES OF COLOUR: GENDER AND ACCULTURATION
… is that 'Colour' as idea acts as a dynamic in the production of meaning and as such is part of what Le Doeuff (1991: 46-49) argues are deeply held epistemes that structure and govern our ways of thinking. I have dealt with the difficulties attendant on the analysis of a phenomenon as …
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Resisting aggression : Graphic re-presentations for other bodies
These chapters consider how art can provide a space for wider critical debate on established patriarchal power relations, which have operated in Western culture since the Enlightenment period. As a female artist, I want to explore the space in art of both the female body and the community body. …
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Creatress: A Woman's Hand
<p>Using stylized and abstracted sculptural interpretations of She—Great Mother, Mother Nature, Earth Goddess, Creatress, Gaia, female sexuality, and the feminine aspects of nature; a wide range of differing chemicals and temperatures for the development of various clay bodies; and a vivid color …
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Framing Eve in "Paradise Lost"
… Paradise Lost presses readers towards fashioning Eve as a temptress, the text simultaneously invites an interpretation Eve as a composition of active goodness. Readers, however, tend to accept inherited cultural stereotypes and ideological constructs of Eve as a temptress because those …