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What Does a Man Want?
- Source :
- Studies in Gender & Sexuality; Summer2003, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p287-307, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This paper is a critical review of the exhibition "Surrealism: Desire Unbound" at the Tate and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The author argues that the majority of the art represents a variety of perverse solutions to male gender anxiety, solutions that most often take the form of viewing the female body as a fetish object or as an object for sadistic drives. She interprets such aggression toward females as being a consequence of the era in which these works were created: Europe between two world wars. Female self-representation is juxtaposed with male-generated art and demonstrates how women artists reclaimed their gaze and desire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- DESIRE
MEN'S sexual behavior
SURREALISM
ART exhibitions
HUMAN sexuality
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15240657
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Gender & Sexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10229500
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15240650409349229