MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Sherrie Levine, Graflex, Tina Modotti
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The body is treated as all other objects - abstractly. Ppt: chuck samuels with sylvia poirier, after weston, from. This is a contemporary take off / critique of weston"s previous nude. One of the features of contemporary art photography is the reference and critique of earlier art. Here, a male model replaces the female, so playing with gender roles and stereoptypes, of earlier work. The female nude has been material for male artists throughout the tradition of western art since the renaissance. Sherrie levine did a body of work which consisted of simply re- photographing original master"s works of art. It is a critique of the status of certain figures, especially male (as they were almost always male) that are considered the famous masters" of photography. As post-modernist art, it examines the idea of authenticity, and the original, over the copy.
