Summary WMNST 106_Sec 02_Midterm Exam 1 GUIDE ( LATEST UPDATE )

Judy Chicago's piece "The Dinner Party" is described by Gillian Perry, in "Introduction to Gender and Art History," as being controversial because of Chicago's extensive use of phallic imagery. In the essay "What Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Linda Nochlin proposes what rhetorical answer (check one) to the title question, "Why have there been no great women artists?": In Linda Nochlin's essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists" she argues that women artists and women writers have had the same struggles in establishing greatness of their work. The line between what is considered "art" and what is considered "pornography" is easy to define. What's going on in the video "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art?" There is a difference between concepts of "the naked" and of "the nude" in art history. Lynda Nead claims, in her essay, "The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality," that throughout history pornography has been typically defined as what it is not, rather than what it is. The male nude in Greek history is to athleticism as the female nude in Greek history is to procreation according to "The Nude in Western Art and its Beginnings in Antiquity" article. Accthe video "The naked truth about the nude in art," how did the Catholic Church differentiate between "nudity" and "nakedness"? FALSE BECAUSE WOMEN ARE INCAPABLE OF GREATNESS. TRUE A "NUDE" REQUIRED A MAN OR WOMAN TO LOOK AT EASE AND CONFIDENT; A "NAKED" FIGURE IN AN ART WORK WAS SUPPOSED TO APPEAR VULNERABLE OR EMBARRASSED. A BUNCH OF ARTWORKS OF WOMEN ARE MORPHING INTO EACH OTHER SHOWING HOW ART'S DEPICTION OF WOMEN HAS CHANGED (OR PERHAPS NOT CHANGED) OVER THE PAST 500 YEARS. TRUE TRUE TRUE A "NUDE" REQUIRED A MAN OR WOMAN TO LOOK AT EASE AND CONFIDENT; A "NAKED" FIGURE IN AN ART WORK WAS SUPPOSED TO APPEAR VULNERABLE OR EMBARRASSED. The video "The naked truth about the nude in art" claims that the Greeks created many nude works of art because... Lynda Nead argues in her article, "The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality," that in the 1960s Britain created laws that reflected an extremely conservative moral culture, and limited artistic freedom. In the "Nude in Visual Arts" we learn that the German term Weibermacht refers to the power of naked men and their ability to sexually control women. The work "Self-Portrait of a Woman Recovering from the Male Gaze" is the only so-called self-portrait that Heffernan produced. What are some of the unique features that the museum curator mentions when discussing the painting "Figure in Moonlight" by Marguerite Zorach? Please choose all that apply.