Requirements: 5 FULL pages SINGLE SPACED in ASA format
Main Point: In my essay, I will be analyzing the rejection of the male gaze. I will first establish what the male gaze is and its function in a patriarchal society, and then I will utilize work from Jenny Saville, Laura Aguilar, and Linda Nochlin to demonstrate the ways in which female artists actively oppose the male gaze, using angles, locations, associations, etc. that are divergent from traditional works. I will root my analysis in information from John Berger and Laura Mulvey’s “Ways of Seeing” in which she explores the institutionalized male gaze and other works such as “The Body Through Women’s Eyes” and “Offbeat and Naked,” both of which focus on the power of creating art that rejects the beauty ideal and thus, the heterosexual male gaze. Analyzing the male gaze in art is important as art reflects dominant culture, a rejection of the male gaze in cinema and art being a rejection of the patriarchy in general.
***I have done a lot of the back work for this essay. I read all of the works and have taken notes on what pertains to the paper. Please use as much of what I have written in the essay as you would like. These are all in my own words so you can honestly copy and paste these sentences wherever they might fit. Please do your own research on the male gaze and how the art might reject the male gaze, though, and please reach out if you do not have access to any of the documents (You can find most online)! Thanks so much.
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