Lesbianism‚ Feminism and Identity in Art CS3 - 2009/10 Kayley Healy Contents Page Introduction Chapter 1 – Robert Mapplethorpe (Self Portraits) Chapter 2 – Marcel Duchamp Chapter 3 – The Guerrilla Girls Chapter 4 – Lesbianism What is Lesbianism? History of Lesbianism Lesbian Identity Chapter 5 – Lesbianism and Gender in Art. Dyke Action Machine Toxic Titties Jocelyn Schneider Foye (Gender Identification Cards) Stacey Halper (Drag Kings) Conclusion Illustrations
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In this essay I will be exploring the contrast and comparison between the way in which the art movement‚ Dadaism and Futurism reacted to the War. It is evident that Dada and Futurism have much in common in terms of their rejection to the past. However‚ one might argue that the Dada movement is anti-war and anti-establishment. It was a response to World War I and the way it destroyed the idea of individualism and mechanized human beings. However‚ Futurism almost revered war and was influenced by machinery
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monstrosities. When Hugo ball founded the Cabaret Voltaire‚ the purpose of his venture was an attempt to ‘draw attention across the barriers of war and nationalism‚ to the few independent spirits who lived by their own ideals (Bigsby‚ pg.7)’. Hans Arp‚ Marcel Janco‚ Tristan Tzara‚ and Richard Huelsenbeck joined Ball and his companion‚ the singer Emmy Hennings‚ as the core
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accusations of quackery‚ insanity‚ immorality‚ and anarchy‚ and even a condemning statement from the President of the United States at the time‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ stating that “this was not art!” Paintings like Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp was a example of people misinterpretation of the modern art movement. The Armory Show was a display of American and European avant-garde art and a way of thinking that expanded the United States understanding of art. But‚ another art display
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] Gerrit Rietveld Academy Basicyear Longlist Exam Questions 2013 1. Why can modern day man‚ not be granted authority to disclaim cultural expressions that is foreign to that of himself from/as being art? 2. Breton wrote in 1929 ’The problem of women is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in the world’. Explain the place of woman in the surrealist movement. The place of woman in the surrealist movement is divided in two. On one hand the woman are used as muses for artists and is
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material objects (Osborne 2002‚ 232). This essay will discuss as to why and how did Conceptual artists disagreed with the statement of formalism and set out to destroy or undermine the value of physical pleasure in art’s making and reception. Marcel Duchamp‚ a French artist‚ paved the way for conceptualists even before the actual movement ever started in the 1900’s. His most famous work the Fountain (1917) of a urinal basin was part of his work readymades and was submitted in annual‚ un-juried exhibition
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war and that the discoveries and innovations before the war would be lost. Although Europe was certainly not without genius‚ the war had brought a rift in the European art community. Dada was making its mark‚ and the anti-art manifestations of Marcel Duchamp were building up until 1916‚ when an uproar was organized and promoted by Tristan Tzara. Ironically Dadaism was directed against art‚ particularly academic art‚ but also against the political society as a whole. The pamphlet Der Dada proclaimed
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Dada and its impact on Contemporary Art According to the Oxford Dictionary of art‚ Dada was “A movement in European art (with manifestations also in New York)‚ c.1915–c.1922‚ characterized by a spirit of rebellious revolt against traditional values. It arose from a mood of cynicism engendered by the First World War‚ to which some artists reacted with‚ cynicism‚ sarcasm and nihilism.” Gathering in Hugo Balls’ Cabaret Voltaire for spontaneous readings‚ performances and exhibitions
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Andre Derain‚ Mountains at Colioure‚ 1905-exemplifeis so called mixed technique. Favism in which short strokes of pure color derived fom the work of van goh and Seurat are combined with curvilinear planes of flat color inspired by by gaugunis paintings and are nouvau decorative arts. The assertive colors‚ which he likened to sticks of dynamite do not record what he actually saw in the landscape by rather generate their own purely artistic energy as they express the artists intense feeling about what
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positive action to start to build again from the ruins of dada” For many of the artists such as Picabia and Ernst‚ Surrealism was the new way forward but with keeping a lot of their Dada ideals. Conceptual art is also rooted in Dada‚ for it was Duchamp who first asserted that the intellectual expression of the artist was of greater significance than the object created. This was the beginning to what we learn today in the idea of conceptual art. “The spirit of contradiction disposed of the outworn
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