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4. Female Representation - Cindy Sherman.
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4. Female Representation - Cindy Sherman.
4. Gender & Identity.
4. Create a Cindy Sherman inspired image.
4. Gender 'other'.
4. Feminism throughout history.
Other female artists challenged the historical and critical readings of art that privilege the male artist. Many feminist artist criticise their marginalised place in the art world, their treatment as 'other', by formulating a variety of strategies that call on a rethinking of the representation of what is 'female'.
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- Sherman photographs herself, deals with issues of identity, gender and is both artist and subject.
- Film Stills 1977 - 1980 stereotypical female roles.
- endless variation of identities created in the Film Stills.
- 1st wave feminism - (1830’s – early 1900’s): Women’s fight for property rights and the right to vote.
- 2nd wave feminism - (1960s - 80s) sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights and brought attention to domestic violence issues.
- 3rd wave feminism - (1990s - present) inclusion of 'other' nationalities, cultures, religions, queer theory and abolishing of gender expectations and stereotypes.
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4. Barbara Kruger.
4. Focus on second wave feminism.
Although the issue of feminism has been acknowledged publicly since the suffragettes, the expansion of a range of feminist theories and an exploration of imagery provoked a radical change in the modern art world. Reclaiming the rights of women in social, political and personal terms proved to be a catalyst for many twentieth-century women artists.
- In approximately 300 explain how Cindy Sherman creates a series of self-portraits to challenge gender expectations of the later twentieth century.
- Use TEAL. Your evidence should be one of Sherman's photographs.
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Barbara Kruger studied photography under Diane Arbus, an American fashion and social-documentary photographer. Kruger also worked as a designer before establishing her career as a postmodern artist. Her characteristic use of image and text mimicking advertisements has appeared in many forms, such as T-shirts, billboards, posters and postcards.
- Synthesis between fine arts and popular culture.