THEA 3235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feminist Aesthetics, Griselda Pollock, Linda Nochlin
Document Summary
Gender and performance art: how one inspires the other and informs the other. Gender as the product of power relations and knowledge. Seeing beyond the visual and linguistic understandings of gender relations (dominant ideology) (the explicit body) paradox of being artists and objects the dominant ideology of the male bias. Art: performance art as a site for contestation asymmetrical relations such as gender relations. Has had a huge impact on late 20th century art. It has inspired the developments of art like paintings, etc. Feminist art can be defined as art by women artists made consciously in light of feminist art theory since 1970. 1971: linda nochlin: titles an essay called why have there been no great women artists? . She explores (economic and social) factors that prevented women froma chieveing the same status as their male counterparts. Griselda pollock: start to tackle the language bias (language of art history)
