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Contained within the performance space is the potential for violence where the audience is the male aggressor and Ono is playing the role of female victim. This reading takes Ono's body as a stand-in for all female bodies and considers her as the objectified female art object to be powerless, subjected to the violence and scrutiny of the ...
Many contemporary Chinese women artists have employed the use of female bodies as the subject of their artworks. From the ancient and imperial period of China until early the 19th century, women's body images in Chinese art were predominantly portrayed through male artists' lenses. As a result, female bodies were often misrepresented.
The vagina represents a powerful symbol as the yoni in Hindu thought. Pictured is a stone yoni found in Cát Tiên sanctuary, Lam Dong, Vietnam.. Various perceptions of the vagina have existed throughout history, including the belief that it is the center of sexual desire, a metaphor for life via birth, inferior to the penis, visually unappealing, inherently unpleasant to smell, or otherwise ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Society places value on women appearing “skinny” and maintaining a low body weight. A study by Katzmarzyk and Davis conducted over two decades on Playboy models found that 70% of the women were underweight and “greater than 75% of the women were less than 85% of their ideal body weight” (Katzmarzyk and Davis). [14]
Saville's art focuses on women's bodies as the predominant subject matter, [29] and is a far cry away from other works of the female form, which have traditionally objectified women. [24] She is more interested in the raw and unaltered female form, [24] and the valuable reactions of disgust which are generated when viewing her pieces. [30]
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