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Contemporary Images of Women

What do these images do? From the producer's point of view, and ours? Do we get interpellated as subjects by them?
From which perspectives can we look at these images? See Male Voyeurism and Female Spectatorship--Berger, et al. *Please leave your messages I. Contemporary Feminist Artists' Challenge of Traditional (Male) Constructions of Women
(including Hollywood images vs. feminist artists and Barbara Kruger)
II. Images of Spice Girls
III. Images of Women on the Ads

Ref. Fashion Models and Postmodern Consumer Society--by Julia Chan from Queens University

Contemporary Feminist Artists' Challenge of

Traditional (Male) Constructions of Women

1. Hollywood images vs. feminist artists--
Cindy Sherman and Madonna
2. Barbara Kruger

I. Hollywood images vs. feminist artists--
Cindy Sherman and Madonna *More work by Cindy Sherman.
--compare the images on the right with those on the right

Lois Lane in the 1950's television program Superman	Cindy Sherman: Untitled film still, 1978 (Staniszewski 281)
Marilyn Monroe	Cindy Sherman: Untitled film still (Staniszewski 282)
Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953	Madonna in a video still from Material Girl, 1985 (Staniszewski 283)
Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, 1972	Madonna in Truth or Dare, 1991 (Staniszewski 284)

References:
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. NY: Penguin, 1995.

II. Images of Spice Girls