Write an essay (900-1000 words) on the topic given. Please make specific and detailed references to the images as well as any sources that you cite. Important that you use all 4 resources that are listed ONLY.
Consider the following images: Barbara Krueger’s ” Not Stupid Enough” (1997) and Diane Arbus’ ” Jayne Mansfield Climber-Ottaviano, actress, with her daughter, Jayne Marie, ” (1965).
-Analyze and compare these images and the ways by which art that is made by women interrogates gender roles in society.
-How do both works address the feminist issue of the gaze as described in Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker’s essay ” Painted Ladies?”
-How do both works criticize the role that women have been persuaded to play through popular culture such as cinema and advertising? How does the medium chosen by each artist reflect feminist aesthetics?
Image #1 : Untitled (Not Stupid Enough), by Barbara Krueger retrieved from https://www.wikiart.org/en/barbara-kruger/untitled-not-stupid-enough ( please see uploaded image)
Image # 2
Photo of Jayne Mansfield Cimbe-Ottaviano, acctress, with her daughter, Jayne Mariem thirteen by Diane Arbus, retrieved from http://www.tfaoi.org/aa/4aa/4aa398.htm (please see uploaded image)
** Important that you use all 4 learning resources and cite your sources within the paper (intext citations) in MLA format **
Resource # 1
-Heartney, Eleanor.” Chapter 4: Post Modern Feminism. ” Post Modernism (Movements in Modern Arts ). Cambridge UP, 2001. (Please see uploaded link to access Chapter 4).
Resource #2
– Mulvey, Laura ” Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema ” Screen 16, no.4 (1975) 6-18
http://www.composingdigitalmedia.org/f15_mca/mca_reads/mulvey.pdf
Resource #3
-Parker, Rozsika, and Griselda Pollack. ” Painted Ladies ” Old Mistresses: Women, Art, and Ideology. IB Taurus, 2013. (please see uploaded file to access)
Resource #4
-Weintraub, Linda. ” Barbara Kruger” Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s meaning in Contemporary Society 1970-1990’s. (please see uploaded file to access)
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