Kobiety „poza kontrolą”? – androcentryczne dyskursy w malarstwie wiktoriańskim (próba rekonstrukcji znaczeń)
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Women „Out of Control”? – Androcentric Discourses in Victorian Painting (the Attempt of Reconstruction of Meanings)
Abstract
From the perspective of feminist analysis, the painting is considered to be androcentric. It is believed
that artworks were created by men, for men and from their point of view. One can even say that,
men speak through the bodies and identities of heroine images in the painting. From this point of
view, painting has been accused not only of the lack of women as authors of works of art, but also of
the lack of representations of the female experience.
Logically, from this perspective, images of women on the canvas are often not simple reflection of
reality, but they crystallize dreams, anxieties and feelings of their male artists. There is no doubt that
they are also imbued with ideologies concerning gender.
Three images that will be examined in this paper were created in the Victorian era (the dates of their
creation are: 1887, 1890, 1896). They all reflect anxieties about womanhood in the late nineteenth
century, primarily manifested in the creation of a new image of a woman - the femme fatale. On the
other hand, the women as objects of the painting are treated as a sexual object for male creator and
viewer. Every woman in the paintings could be described as "being out of control". There is a paradox
here: the woman is simultaneously out of control and controlled by men. It is worth it to add
that every painting has an extremely suggestive impact on the viewer and amazing articstic value.
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Victorian Painting, femininity, androcentrism, femme fatale, hysteria
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Studia Edukacyjne, 2014, nr 32, s. 49-62
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978-83-232-2837-0
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1233-6688