Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
After publishing the last post, I found some interesting quotes in relation to Jones’s sculptures – “the exploitation of already exploitative material cannot be seen as politically neutral, whatever the artist’s intentions and the use of a particular kind of sexual imagery contributes to the ‘objectification’, even degradation of women” (Tickner, Block 1, p. 39) [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
image by Helmut Newton I love this image, it’s so fantastically perverse, and it sparked off a lot of thoughts, with at least some of these thoughts on art, film, sociological theory… Anyway, in my opinion, it’s extremely sexualised, and makes comment on gender roles through the woman being an object or an animal. Looking [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
I’m really unsure of how relevant any of these ideas are to what I’m doing, particularly as I’m finding it so hard to come up with anything visual based on these ideas, but I want to document all of my thought processes and links between thoughts. So, from looking at the 1995 Vogue featuring the [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
In looking at the work of Melanie Pullen, I then went on to look at violent imagery in the rest of fashion, and found a number of images that I thought were rather unorthodox. Firstly I found the phenomena of “Kegadoru”, apparently literally translated to “Injured dolls”, although I like the term “Broken Dolls” that [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
I started getting more of an interest in fashion again, thinking about whether industries like fashion can be seen as being detrimental to women through objectifying them. In my opinion, more mainstream media like fashion, television, etc. gives more concentrated stereotyping of women than the more demonified medias such as pornography, particularly as it reaches [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 29, 2009
I always lament how cameras are considered unacceptable in theatres… I would have loved to take photos of this performance – it was visually stunning. Instead I had to content myself with sketching the still scene at the beginning, although I’m obviously not content with it because when I see something I love I want [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 29, 2009
Above is a collage, an almost ‘scrap book’-like image that I created after seeing a performance of Romeo & Juliet. It was a generally profound experience for me – it was my first week in the city I now live in, the first time I stole education from the other university in said city in [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 27, 2009
In the spirit of what I said before about exposure to media I don’t like, I attended an extremely bad theatre adaptation of Antigone. The only thing I really liked about it was the lighting, and that was just standard theatre lighting, it’s just that I love the atmosphere of the theatre and always want [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 27, 2009
I’m going to try to put down all the thoughts I’ve been having recently, because it’ll be useful sometime, maybe. It links to working process and artistic practice, but I’m a bit confused about all of it still – I dont know how I can incorporate these sort of ideas into my own work, or [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 27, 2009
I thought it’d be useful to try to honestly answer all of the questions on the ADP sheet. “Have you represented your thought and making process in your blog? i.e. how have your work and ideas developed? How references link to ideas? How your ideas change over time?” I’d say I’ve represented my thoughts in [...]
