Gaze

While various feminist theories are in disagreement about whether a woman can subvert the male gaze by reproducing and manipulating it, that idea served as the basis of Wilke’s feminist art. Her feminist critiques remain consistent throughout her work even when she is not the sole subject of it. Portrait of the Artist with her Mother, Selma Butter…

The normative gaze, described in Cornel West 's writing “Prophesy Deliverance!”, is a fixed perspective masquerading as the singular lens for reality. Whiteness, in accepting a pure transcendence, seeks to answer the questions of humanity while simultaneously denying…

bell hooks states in her article, The Oppositional Gaze, the importance of the power in looking. (hooks pg 15-31 Oppositional Gaze). hooks states that this is a strategy of dominance, or control of power over the less dominant individual. When Rihanna stares at the camera during her video she displays her power by looking maintaining her humanity…

develop fields that would extend means of assistance to others. Hermeneutics, Fanon and Identity Khanna highlights that black men see other black men through a particular white gaze. Fanon brings these same critics to light that raises some stern consternation. If one’s gaze is muddle in a particular “white gaze” that sidelines their ability to fairly critic then how can they give a correct or stable hermeneutic? Fanon’s work with deals with the trauma of the colonized but…

She creates a female gaze that I personally connect with the entire time. She is an aspiring artist that is struggling with her art, with paying her bills, and “an identity crisis, embodied by her confused characterization of lovers” (Herman): Jaime Overstreet, Mars Blackmon, and Greer Childs. However, even though it seems like her life's falling apart, she still holds power and is the active agent that pushes the story along. Darling does this by creating a female gaze. She rejects the title of…

spectatorial procedures at work in the sequence from let the right one in, where Oscar watches Ellie changing into his mothers dress. My argument is that Oscar is a twelve year old who is not yet sexual and so his watch is more of an innocent gaze or rather a curious gaze, but the audience sexualizes the scene. For my explanations I will be using the theories of voyeurism and fetishism that Laura Mulvey presents in her article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. ( M, L. 1989). Voyeurism…

Cunningham’s choreography from the 1950s exemplified the way in which he studied ballet to form a modern technique. Septet, choreographed in 1953, featured six dancers in traditional ballet practice clothes, though instead of ballet shoes they were barefoot. In the film of a 1964 performance in Helsinki, Finland, the balletic influences are clearly visible from the beginning of the work. In the first of the seven sections, the lights rise on three statuesque dancers in a diagonal line across the…

eyes. Her gaze is so autonomous and uncompromising that it reminds me of “the Medusa effect” defined by W.J.T. Mitchell in his article, “What do pictures want?” The gaze of the subject in the painting can “transfix or paralyze the beholder.” In many portraits of lady from the aristocratic class by famous male artists, the gaze is generally averted. Their eyes seem to look beyond to some invisible point, instead of making pictorial eye contact with the viewer. Downcast eyes and averted gaze…

running around to cook dinner for her husband. The way that we view this photograph can be attributed back to the theory, of “male gaze.” Cindy Sherman was the first photographer to incorporate this strategy into photography which was, up to this point, only used in movies. Mary Devereaux defines the male gaze both literally and figuratively. Literally speaking, the male gaze…

5 minutes Frequency of Touch Person A touches Person B: 0 Person B touches Person A: 0 Smiling 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Infrequent Frequent 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Person A smiles More Person B smiles more Eye Contact 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Person A gazes more Person B gazes more Interpersonal Distance: approximately 15 inches Notes: The two males were working at a cellphone stand in the garden state plaza mall. There were three workers present, however, only the two males that I observed were…