AHIS10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Guerrilla Girls, Vivienne Binns, Cindy Sherman
10 Sep 2018
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Wide diversity of gender identity and ethnicity in feminism. Second wave of feminism feminist thinking. Representation from feminist perspective: an effort to achieve equal political, legal and cultural representation for women. Demanding equality of representation in social and cultural institutions: a critical analysis of the way that women are typically represented in culture, a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) the (cid:373)edia. A (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ue of (cid:448)isual (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:271)odies. In artworks, magazines, how does that impact art and art history. Gender politics suddenly became very obvious (paul gauguin) Gender politics were also part of their works. Great male artists who used female bodies as their medians for self-expression, as a passive screen to project their greatness. We wear gorilla makes to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. Out anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be: we could be anyone and we could be anywhere.
