EN 1700 Lecture Notes - Gender Analysis, Bram Dijkstra, Human Female Sexuality
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Berger; cultural, class & gender analyses mystification, property, the nude. Employs strategies of cultural analysis (considers the conceptual underpinnings and the implied messages hidden in visual and verbal text). Normal status quo, the way we think things are, the way we think that things have always been. We often internalize the status quo, we hear it over and over and because other people share these views. In ways of seeing, he tries to make see beyond the status quo and invade your comfort zone. Mystifies the art rather than clarifying it. It raising it into the realm of high culture. Because art has this discourse, we are afraid of what we will see. Berger tries to break the pretentious way of thinking about art. The notion to say something smart about art, there is something else that you can talk about.
