ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Binary Opposition, Gender Trouble, Vanessa Beecroft

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Visual Arts
• Course: ARHS 1500
• Professor: Julie Smit

Document Summary

Scopophilic tendencies: images of desire and death in contemporary visual culture (images: supreme and supreme bitch clothing inspired by barbara kruger, promo poster and film still from fight club) Screening: trailer for season 1 of orange is the new black (2013) (images: helmut newton foundation lobby in berlin with big nudes, 1980, andrew groves, Cocaine nights runway show spring 1999, bebe ad featuring woman in a bird cage) Representation: is the act of portraying, depicting, symbolizing, or presenting the likeness of something. (images: b+w self-portrait of helmut newton photographed on location with models, helmut. Ne(cid:449)to(cid:374)"s (cid:272)olour i(cid:373)age of (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)rossi(cid:374)g a la(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:449)ho has stopped to fi(cid:454) her garter belt, Ne(cid:449)to(cid:374)"s b+w i(cid:373)age of (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) photographed fro(cid:373) a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e as she lea(cid:374)s o(cid:374) a (cid:373)a(cid:374)tle (cid:449)ith o(cid:374)e breast revealed, (2) colour images of a model on her back while helmut shoots her from above) Scopophilia: in psychoanalytic terms, implies taking pleasure in looking (usually in a passive manner) through a lens.