Reclaiming The Gaze |
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"I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do - you know, instead of pulling out a gun." - Barbara Kruger |
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Quiz #5 Due |
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Worksheet #12 Due |
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Barbara Kruger .Thinking of You. 1999. http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/original/0262112507-f30.jpg |
Reminder! Book Pages 26 - 30 due on Wednesday |
Historic
Context |
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| 1980 | Art critic Kay Larson writes "for the first time women are leading and not following." |  |
| 1981 | AIDS first recognized as a disease, given the name "Gay Related Immune Deficiency" | |
| Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court justice | ||
| China begins to limit families to one child | ||
| 1983 | Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple | |
| Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space | ||
| 1984 | Geraldine Ferraro runs with Walter Mondale as first female Vice-Presidential nominee for a major party, but the ticket loses to Reagan | |
| 1985 | Rock Hudson dies of AIDS | |
| MOMA exhibition - An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture | ||
| 1986 | Chernobyl nuclear accident | |
| GRID renamed HIV/ AIDS | ||
| Space shuttle Challenger explodes on take-off killing the entire crew, including teacher Christa McAuliffe | ||
| 1987 | Museum of Women in the Arts founded | |
| Barbara Kruger and Sherrie Levine become first female artists to join Mary Boone's gallery | ||
| Fatal Attraction | ||
| 1988 | Florence Griffith Joyner wins three Gold medals at Seoul Olympics | |
| 1989 | Communist governments in eastern Europe fall | |
Postmodernism
= name for many stylistic reactions to, and developments from, modernism.
Postmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression,
collage, pastiche, and irony. Postmodern theorists see postmodern art
as a reversal of well-established modernist systems, such as the roles
of artist versus audience, seriousness versus play, or high culture
versus kitsch. |
Elizabeth Murray. Painter's Progress. 1981. |
Cindy Sherman
1954 -
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979.
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #14. 1979.
pastiche = an artistic technique whereby a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style is employed; although jocular it is usually respectful (as opposed to parody, which is not) |
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film
Still #48. 1979. |
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #21. 1979.
Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 1973 |
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Male
gaze = a fundamental concept to Feminist theory which relates to
the way men look at women, how women look at themselves and other women,
and the sociological effects of this method of looking. |
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Some feminists
posit that since it is almost always the female who is being gazed upon
by the male, the man exhibits power over the woman. |
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But who is the assumed viewer in a Sherman image? |
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Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film
Still #34. 1979. Cruz, Amanda and Elizabeth A. T. Smith. Cindy Sherman: Retrospective. Chicago: Thames & Hudson, 1998. |
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film
Still #32. 1979.
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/lin/images/mayalb.jpg
1996 Museum of Modern Art purchased a complete set of Film Stills for $1 million |
In 2006 a print of #32 (she made 10) sold for $140,000 at auction |
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Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #13. 1978. Cruz, Amanda and Elizabeth A. T. Smith. Cindy Sherman: Retrospective. Chicago: Thames & Hudson, 1998. |
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #96. 1981. http://www.letitflow.com/worlds-most-expensive-photograph/ |
In 2008 a print of #13 sold at auction for $902,500 |
In 2011 a print of #96 sold at auction for $3,890,500 making it the most expensive photograph |
