Feminist Theory
The advocacy for women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
What is feminism?
The founder of Marxist ideology.
Who is Karl Marx?
Described as "non-western, non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual"
What is the "Other"?
The attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose political, economic, and cultural principles into another territory.
What is colonialism?
Artistic movement inspired by Freud's theories.
What is Surrealism?
Scholar who wrote the first major essay on feminism in art history, arguing that the reason there is a lack of women artists in history is due to institutional obstacles.
Who is Linda Nochlin?
The two classes in a constant struggle, according to Marxism.
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
Examines how traditional notions of gender and sexuality break down, overlap, or misrepresent the range of human sexuality in a text or work of art.
What is queer theory?
The idea coined by Edward Said that refers to the racist, sexualized, commodified way the West discusses Eastern cultures.
What is Orientalism?
The three parts of the warring self, according to Sigmund Freud.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
the understanding that people's identities (like race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.) overlap, creating unique experiences of both privilege and disadvantage.
What is intersectionality?
The idea that art is something that dominant classes may use to perpetuate class relations that benefit them, or that revolutionaries may use to undermine the power of the dominant class.
What is Marxist art history?
Argued by Judith Butler, the idea that being born male or female does not determine behavior. The way we fit into gender is an act, or performance.
What is gender performativity?
The argument that challenges the notion that colonialism is over and should be studied as such.
What is challenging the "post" in Post-colonialism?
Freuds concept used by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" to describe the pleasure derived from looking at someone in a sexual or erotic context.
What is scopophilia?
the theory that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced upon people by a patriarchal heteronormative society.
Artist who is famous for his murals that depict themes of Marxism and Communism.
Who is Diego Rivera?
A large, community-created memorial to those who have died from AIDS, first displayed on the National Mall in Washington (1987).
What is the NAMES quilt?
A film that sought to make visible the history of abuse, captivity and exploitation of indigenous peoples.
What is Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey?
A creative technique where you draw spontaneously, without censoring your thoughts, allowing your subconscious to guide the process.
What is free association?
A masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer.
What is the male gaze?
Scholar who argued that the reproduction of visual culture causes the original work to lose its aura.
Who is Roland Barthes?
Described by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as "the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances, and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyones sexuality aren't made to signify monolithically."
What is queerness?
The meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa, depicted by artist Yinka Shonibare in Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884?
According to Sally Miller, this medium and style transformed people's identity and recognition of the self.
What is portrait photography?