on nude photography.
on nude photography.
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- gregorywieber0
The 'woman as object of man' in art was described famously by Laura Mulvey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La... as the 'male gaze'. The Guerrilla Girls (http://www.guerrillagirls.com/) comment a lot on this phenomena, most recognizably with their tag: "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?"
- interesting links - i will have to do a lot of followup reading. thanks!bigtrick
- gregorywieber0
Oh, and a female artist who confronts that issue directly (at least according to critics if not herself) is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
- gregorywieber0
Looks like a truncated the Laura Mulvey link above to just link to 'la' on wikipedia.
- ya, i figured out what you were trying to link to (:bigtrick