This month’s post is another artist highlight, about the incredible performance artist, philosopher, conceptual artist, and photographer Adrian Piper! Her work, which poignantly addresses themes of gender, otherness, race, ostracism, and self-analysis, has greatly impacted Post-Modern, Feminist, and Conceptual art. Her genre-defying, multifaceted, revolutionary work spans various disciplines and media, and her ongoing career has lasted six decades. Born in…
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Behind the Movement: The Women of Surrealism
My latest art obsession is Surrealism, especially the female artists involved with the movement. Several courses I took last semester were about modern art, and I finally started paying attention to Surrealism, which I’d previously written off, having only knowing its male participants and their infamous sexism. Surrealism was certainly rooted in a chauvinistic and phallocentric narrative, but many women…
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Female Nudes and The Male Gaze
The artistic convention of the nude has been around since ancient times, and its sexist undertones have always accompanied it. The naked female body has long been a source of pleasure to the male eye. It is commodified and assigned value through its sexual attractiveness to the male eye. The conventions of nudes have shifted to please male audiences throughout…
