Marilyn Monroe

Wearing Lady Gaga or Marilyn Monroe clothes, stripping or dancing with a sexualized manner in front of everybody are also some of the toddlers’ recourses used to improve their chance for winning. According to Anita Gurian, sexualization refers to the definition of a person’s value…

have been displayed in art exhibitions together, for example Twisted Pair at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh (Carnegie Museums, 2016). Another big factor of his influence on Warhol was the idea to mass produce art (Groys, 2010). The picture of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol for example, which is a 25 square collage of the exact same picture, gives the impression that he is producing art through a factory because he is producing identical images. Ironically, his art studio in New York was…

Twiggy was born in Twickenham, Middlesex. (Brumburgh) Though beginning their careers in a single place, their influence quickly spread to America. In the 1950 's, models were much more voluptuous, curvy and held a pin up girl style. Women like Marilyn Monroe set a solid beauty standard, and it seemed it would stay so. In the 1960 's there were some to challenge this standard, one model in particular being the most influential. Twiggy, born Lesley Hornby, led to the turnaround in fashion,…

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp’s photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy did more than just represent the change occurring in gender roles during the time of its creation in the United States during the 1920s. This photo and the others of Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy influenced many artists including Yasumasa Morimura. Morimura went as far as to make a parody of the famous photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy. Morimura’s image was called Doublonnage (Marcel) and was created in 1988 but this is not…

Rosemary’s baby (1968) is a horror film directed by Polish native Roman Polanski. This was Polanski’s first American film and his second horror film and it was based on Ira Levin’s bestselling novel of the same name written in 1967. This was a creepy and eerie film about a young couple Rosemary and Guy (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) who were newlyweds who moved into an apartment in an old apartment building in Central Park West in New York. The couple became friends with their strange…

World War II ended in 1945, sending veterans home to a postwar economy to have children and begin their new lives. Despite some social disagreements, everything was looking up for Americans. However by the time the baby boomers were becoming teenagers in the 60s, things were not looking so bright. While the 50s were full of prosperity, conformity, and consensus, there were still disagreements leading to the very different turbulence, protests, and disillusionment of the 60s. In part,…

expecting twins, the audience may feel sorrow for Mrs Johnstone as life has dealt her another blow and this is not what she had planned. Willy Russell shows the audience how Mrs Johnstone’s situation is getting even worse. Mrs Johnstone introduces Marilyn Monroe representing a perfect and glamourous lifestyle but also happiness that doesn’t last. However, Mrs Johnstone remains hopeful and this makes her a more sympathetic…

LEE LEE, an American brand of denim jeans, was established by Henry David LEE in 1912. Initially, Henry started LEE Mercantile Company, a wholesale grocery distributor in Salina, Kansas in 1889. With the need to handle larger shipments of goods with the exponentially increasing population, large number of workers, Henry LEE was unhappy with the inconsistent delivery and poor quality of work wear from suppliers. Henry LEE decided to start sewing its own overall factory wears. In this article, 4Ps…

explains the link between pageants and the hypersexualization of young girls. All the girls are seeking approval, and they get it by winning a crown for they’re inappropriate appearances “... strutting across pageant stages, looking like a baby Marilyn Monroe with makeup more suited to women several times her age” Hollandsworth says, describing JonBenet Ramsey (a 6-year old pageant girl, who was brutally murdered in her own…

models has been developing since the early 1900’s. The idyllic female body became curvier during the Great Depression and after the end of World War II, the media was displaying a different type of feminine body. This body form was the image of Marilyn Monroe, with her larger hips and small waist. This ideal womanly form did not last long and through the 1960’s and 1970’s the ideal form became more slender. The thinner one was, the more attractive they were thought to be. Models like…