WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Guerrilla Girls, John Berger, Male Gaze
25 Jul 2016
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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. 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. Images are structured around a perspective; if the viewer is the organizing perspective, then the image is all about you and how you are situated in the world (of the image)
