IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY     Term I, 2004-2005

 

 UNIT 7: MASQUERADE, GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM

 

ARTISTS:         GEORGIA O'KEEFFE     RROSE SÉLAVY (MARCEL DUCHAMP)      FRIDA KAHLO                                

                        CLAUDE CAHUN           CINDY SHERMAN                     BARBARA KRUGER     

                        JENNY HOLZER            ITHELL COLQUHOUN

 

ASSIGNED READINGS: MASQUERADE (IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION)

 

Riviere, Joan (1929/1986) "Womanliness as Masquerade,"

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]               

 

Doane, Mary Ann, (1982) "Film and Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator," Screen, v.23 (3-4) Sept/Oct 1982.             Also in Femmes Fatales (ch lib)

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]               

 

Heath, Stephen, (1986) "Joan Riviere and the Masquerade," in Burgin, et. al. eds Formations of Fantasy,

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]               

 Doane, Mary Ann, (1988-89) "Masquerade Reconsidered: Further Thoughts on the Female Spectator," Discourse, 2 (Fall/Winter 1988-89)     

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]               

 

Apter, Emily, (1991) "Unmasking the Masquerade: Fetishism and Femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere," in Feminizing the Fetish,               

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]               

 

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SEE ALSO SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:

 

RROSE SÉLAVY (MARCEL DUCHAMP)   (b.1921-)

 

Jones, Amelia G. Chapter 2. "The Ambivalence of Male Masquerade: Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy," 21-31, plus notes 192-193, in Adler and Pointon (eds.) The Body Imaged.

            ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE

 

Tashjian, Dickran. Chapter 2. "Vous Pour Moi? Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling," 37-65, in Whitney Chadwick, (ed.) Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. Cambridge, Mass. London England: MIT Press, 1998.

            ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE

 

FRIDA KAHLO

 

Lomas, David, "Body Languages: Kahlo and Medical Imagery," in Kathleen Adler and Marcia Pointon, The Body Images: The Human Form and Visual Culture Since the Renaissance.  Cambridge UP, 1993

            [ill: FGM ?? N 7625.5  .B63  1993]

 

CINDY SHERMAN:

 

Krauss, Rosalind. Cindy Sherman 1975-1993. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.

            USF LIBRARY: TR 654  .K729  1993

 

 

 

BARBARA KRUGER:

 

Kruger, Barbara, (1983) We Won't Play Nature to Your Culture, Exhibition Catalogue, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts,

            [XEROX IN ARTISTS FILES: KRUGER - GREEN]

            [ILL: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARY: N 7433.4 .K78 A4 1983]

 

JENNY HOLZER:

 

Holzer, Jenny (1986) Signs, Exhibition Catalogue, Des Moines Art Center.

                        [CH HAS PERSONAL COPY ON FEMINIST'S SHELF]

Howell, John, "The Medium is the Message: Jenny Holzer," Art News, (Summer 1988), 123-127.

            [XEROX IN ARTISTS FILES: HOLZER - GREEN]

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY PERIODICAL: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE     CROSS DRESSING

           

                        PHOTOGRAPH BY STEIGLITZ  

 

RROSE SÉLAVY/MARCEL DUCHAMP   UNDERMINING GENDER

 

1921                 RROSE SÉLAVY (photograph by Man Ray)

1921                 RROSE SÉLAVY (photograph by Man Ray)

1921                 BEAUTIFUL BREATH, VEIL WATER (Perfume Bottle)

1938                 RROSE SÉLAVY (manikin in 1938 International Exhibition] 

 

1919                 L. H. O. O. Q.

1945                 LAZY HARDWARE (manikin in Bookstore Window)

1965                 L.H.O.O.Q. SHAVED

 

FRIDA KAHLO       IDENTITY AND IMAGE CONSTRUCTION--MEDICALIZATION

 

1938     **          WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME

1932                 HENRY FORD HOSPITAL

1945                 WITHOUT HOPE

1932                 MY BIRTH

1940                 THE DREAM

1944                 THE BROKEN COLUMN

1946                 TREE OF HOPE, STAND FAST

1938     **          REMEMBRANCE OF AN OPEN WOUND

1943                 ROOTS

1949                 THE LOVE EMBRACE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE EARTH (MEXICO) ME, DIEGO AND MR. XÓLOTO.

1940                 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CROPPED HAIR 

1939                 THE TWO FRIDAS

 

CLAUDE CAHUN  THE AMBIGUITY OF A LESBIAN

 

1911                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1920                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1921                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1927                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1927                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1928                 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MASK

1928                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1929                 SELF-PORTRAIT

1938                 SELF-PORTRAIT

 

CINDY SHERMAN   RE-REPRESENTING MASQUERADE AS FEMININE

 

1978                 UNTITLED # 14

1978                 UNTITLED # 15

1978                 UNTITLED # 25

1979                 UNTITLED # 48

1979                 UNTITLED # 52

1980                 UNTITLED # 54

1980                 UNTITLED # 71

1980                 UNTITLED # 74

1981                 UNTITLED # 94

1981                 UNTITLED # 102

1983                 UNTITLED # 129

1985                 UNTITLED # 145

1989                 UNTITLED # 216

1990                 UNTITLED # 224

1990                 UNTITLED # 225

           

BARBARA KRUGER        SHIFTERS: THE POSSIBILITIES OF PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVES     

 

            SURVEILLANCE IS YOUR BUSYWORK   [EMPHASIS ADDED]

            DON'T BUY US WITH APOLOGIES

            WE WILL UNDO YOU

            WHAT SIGN ARE YOU?

            WE ARE YOUR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

            YOU INVEST IN THE DIVINITY OF THE MASTERPIECE

            WE HAVE RECEIVED ORDERS NOT TO MOVE

            NOW YOU SEE US-- NOW YOU DON'T

            OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN

            YOUR GAZE HITS THE SIDE OF MY FACE

            I SHOP THEREFORE I AM

            YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND

            MEMORY IS YOUR IMAGE OF PERFECTION

            YOU ARE NOT YOURSELF

            I HATE MYSELF

 

JENNY HOLZER

 

1978     INFLAMMATORY ESSAYS

1983     ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

            PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT

            MIXED MESSAGES: MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE

 

ITHELL COLQUHOUN

1938                 SCYLLA

                        THE PINE FAMILY