In six pages this paper discusses how racial and gender oppression have been reinforced by the arts in this analysis of the artistic images of women. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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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
artists 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. BBfematR.doc WOMENS IMAGES AND REALITIES Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000
Introduction 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 artists 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. Resistant
themes and strategies I do wonder if women, who are artists, or artists who are women, consciously have themes of resistance. From those I have known and studied it
seems as though one their major themes, is resistance itself, of the "not-giving-up" of it. Or even the "believing-of-it," that it can be done - that part of their
soul must, and will have expression. I once had an installation artist friend, that I quizzed about her monumental paper sculptures (some were 13 feet tall -