AAH 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Janine Antoni, Mary Cassatt, Caryatid
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Some pictures in the study power-point we won"t have learned- ignore them. Recap: up until then women had been pictured stereotypically. Linda laughlin: the stereotype has been women are sinful, indulgent, corrupt, Women are not passive, they"re independent and defiant, they"re not enslaved. Solitude: images where woman are alone (penelope) frederick laten she has been left alone while odysseus is adventuring, she is waiting. If you have nothing to do, but you want to be doing something, your bored. Alone in her thoughts, has pulled herself away from everything around her. Penelope by antoin bordell careless, indiferent, resistant to suitors. She"s monumental, her hip is cocked, she looks indifferent. Son in an empty room sarah jones did pictures of girls in her bedrooms, about longing and the young girl who returns to their place of origin and no longer recognizes it as their own. Work- typically see peasant woman, washerwoman, water carriers (physically challenging) carrying work, family and society.
