Women's Images and Realities

Abstract: (6 pp) For more years than we would like to count, the arts have been used to reinforce gender and racial oppression. Some of the discrimination may be subtle, or so ingrained, that it is no longer noticed. Women in the visual arts have largely been presented, or shown, as "being gazed upon;" not until the nineteenth century did the model even begin to gaze back at the viewer. When this did happen of course, the pubic in general was shocked at the artist's audacity for "allowing" the woman to gaze back. Even then, it was not the woman as model that had any power, it was the artist who dared to show her that way. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

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Subcatagory: Social & Political Issues In Art

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