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The female body in the looking-glass
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ISBN: 9781788311014 9781786720085 1788311019 1786720086 9781786730084 1786730081 9781780766447 1780766440 1350988677 9781350988675 Year: 2016 Publisher: London New York

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Dans sa théorie du «stade du miroir», le psychanalyste et psychiatre Jacques Lacan a affirmé que le corps féminin est défini par son manque d'attributs masculins. Dans ce cadre, il a décrit la sexualité féminine principalement comme une absence et a assumé la subordination féminine au regard masculin. Cependant, que se passe-t-il si l'on suit le conseil de Jean Baudrillard "d'avaler le miroir" et de regarder à travers le "miroir" pour explorer les reflets et les réalités rencontrés dans le miroir culturel, qui reflète la culture en question : ses normes, ses idéaux et valeurs? Et si le beau était inversé et devenait laid ; et le laid est considéré comme beau ou la forme-change en quelque chose conventionnellement considéré comme beau ? Ce sont les questions fondamentales que Basia Sliwinska pose dans cette nouvelle et importante enquête sur l'identité de genre et les politiques de vision de l'art féminin contemporain. Au travers d'une discussion innovante sur le miroir en tant que métaphore, Sliwinska révèle comment les pratiques post-1989 des artistes femmes Les deux côtés de l'ancien rideau de fer - tels que Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL, Anetta Mona Chisa et Lucia Tkacova - vont au-delà des binaires entre hommes et femmes et embrassent l'altérité et la différence en jouant avec des visages trop féminins. Leurs œuvres provocantes offrent des représentations alternatives du corps féminin à celles du miroir culturel. Leur art défie et déconstruit les représentations patriarcales de «l'autre» social et culturel, associées aux tropes visuelles de la féminité telles qu'Alice au pays des merveilles, Vénus et Méduse. Le corps féminin dans le miroir fait une intervention radicale et radicale dans la théorie de l'art et les études culturelles en proposant de nouveaux concepts théoriques tels que "le miroir" et le "genderland" (inspirés des aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles), en tant qu'outils essentiels avec lesquels analyser et expliquer les récents développements de l'art féminin. In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to swallow the mirror and go through the looking-glass to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art. Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramović, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkácová - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as the mirror and genderland (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.


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Feminist visual activism and the body
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ISBN: 9780429298615 0429298617 9781000331394 1000331393 9781000331479 1000331474 9781000331431 1000331431 9780367278991 0367278995 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge

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This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonization, social justice, democracy, precarity, vulnerability), negotiated with and through the body. Drawing upon the legacy of feminist art historical critique, the book scrutinizes activist strategies, practices, and resilience techniques in intersectional and transnational frameworks. It interrogates how the arts enable the creation of civil and political resilience, become engaged with politics as a response to disaster capitalism, and attempt to reform and improve society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, fine arts, women's studies, gender studies, feminism, and cultural studies.

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