Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking

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When I shared the statistics from this book, a lot of men try to explain that they don’t care who made the art; that they just enjoy the art itself. I like the idea of this book more than how it presents its facts; where it takes a non-neutral stance, and where I thought it highlighted parts of a discussion to establish its own views. Having said this, independent of the way information is presented, it has a lot of interesting information.

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

And then whilst scouting for a film location Henry comes across Herman Street. Hermann Strasse was where he found the girl in the photograph:

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When women are hidden, or robbed of their past, they are robbed of their identity,” said De la Villa. “The power of culture is very important. It just can’t be separated from the social conditions we enjoy, or which we suffer.” Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art—Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna—and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs, ads, and across social media. By society empowering men to represent women, women imbibe a distorted vision of themselves and their bodies, coming up against notions of impossible beauty, idealized passivity and violence, and horrifying Medusas. I watched the horror film X from A24 not too long ago. As far as I know the this movie is critically acclaimed. This part didn't answer my questions and was repetitive, but here I was not the target audience anyway.

Book review of “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with

This is a highly opinionated book. It examines how the female body has been portrayed over the centuries using themes like Venus (the seductive look), Motherhood (puritanical and housekeeping), Maidens (but this was more on rape), and Monstrous women (those who stray out of the norm – witches).On his return to Britain after the First World War, Henry Whitaker begins his career as a film-maker - first as assistant to the legendary director Arthur Maxted, and then as one of the country's foremost documentary-makers. But all the while he yearns to create a feature film of his own - a work of art that will give his life meaning. In Chapter 4, Medusa, Lilith, Circe, and other 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 women make appearances as well as 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑣𝑒’s Villanelle, moving on to the reclamation of female power and sexuality with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s 𝑊𝐴𝑃. In 2011, 40-year-old Nia Long posed both naked and pregnant on the cover of Ebonymagazine (see here via HuffPost UK), showing off her beautiful pregnancy glow and defying expectations about timelines for both pregnancy and posing for sexy nude photos. “I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes,” she told Ebonyat the time. Amen! De la Villa agreed. “The public is going to ask, ‘How can it be that we didn’t know about these female artists?’” she said.