WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Guerrilla Girls, John Berger, Sexual Objectification
13 Apr 2015
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Annotated bibliography: (80-100 words) addresses this topic, raised these points, etc. Article from mainstream media (treat the same topic) Possible topics: oscars, award shows; patricia arquette and equal pay for women; domestic violence in the nfl; abducted girls of nigeria; women and isis: etc. Uses examples from classical european oil painting to talk about how we process visual information and how visual information has its own language, which also reveals much about gender assumptions. Suzanne lustig, how and why did the guerrilla girls alter the art world establishment . Women as artists and not works of art. Heather davis, screaming as loud as the boys . Anti-establishment ethos of punk vs. reality of women in punk scene. Images convey meaning as much as story does, including meaning about gender, race, and class. While much of his book (and the excerpt) are about classical european oils, the same vocabulary is used by advertising and other media today.
