ARTH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grotesque Body, Grotto, Essentialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Art History & Communications
• Course: ARTH 338
• Professor: Julia Skelly

Document Summary

Female grotesque theoretical concept in which russo has explored the way that females have been seen as grotesque when the deviate norms, or exceed boundaries. Assignment 1 engage with mary russo"s text. Research assignment proposal 10 sources (at least) and one sentence for each explaining why i think the resource is useful. Male representation of the female nude in which women in the 20th century were working. Later, female artists began to use their own bodies in art as a form of the second wave of feminism. The female nude and the ways in which female bodies have been framed as excessive. The calssical body is trancendent, and monumental. The grotesque body is open, protruding, irregular identi ed with none identi ed low culture and social. Abject: associated with kristeva, abject has been associated with the female body. The grotesque has been associated with the cave/ grotto/ womb .