Transcript Slide 1

Race, Gender, Clan and Class
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- racial background, gender, class and
geneology will all contribute to who we
are as individuals
- human beings interact within social
circumstances – families, clans,
communities
- unfortunately, these factors may also
trigger prejudice and discrimination
- how have race, gender, clan and class
been reflected in art?
Race
• How does art help forge racial identity?
Mark Chagall: Over Vitebsk (1915 - 1920)
James VanDerZee: Society Lady
Betye Saar: The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972)
James Luna: The Artifact Piece (1986)
Tseng Kwong Chi: Disneyland, California (1979)
Gender Issues:
• How is gender tied to ideas of what is
beautiful or what is heroic?
• How should men and women look? How
does art make that clear?
Waupanal: Men's cult house – Papua New Guinea
Peter Paul Rubenss: Abduction of the Daughters of
Leucippus (Flanders, 1617)
Francois de Cuvillies: Hall of Mirrors (Germany, 1734 - 1739)
Hung Lui: Trauma Installation (China/USA, 1989)
Hung Lui
Guerrilla Girls: Do women have to be naked to get into the
Met? (USA, 1986)
Ingres: Grande Odalisque
Clan:
• How does art identify a clan?
• When are ancestors important to a clan,
and how does art help to make that
relationship possible?
Head of a Roman Patrician (Italy, c. 75 – 50 BCE)
Bisj Poles (Asmat, New Guinea)
Bamgboye of Odo-Owa: Epa Headdress called “Orangun”
(Nigeria, 1974)
Marisol: The Family (1962)
The General Idea: Baby Makes 3 (1984 - 1989)
Class:
• How do paintings and drawings give us
images of the ways different classes live?
• How does art reflect the tastes, ideas and
needs of different classes?
• Why does possession of a certain kind of
art indicate a person's class structure?
Temple of Ramses II (Egypt, 1275 – 1225 BCE)
Seated Scribe (Egypt, 2500 – 2400 BCE)
Diego Velazquez: Las Meninas (Spain, 1656)
Jean-Honore Fragonard: The Swing (France, 1766)
Beadworkers of the Adesina
Family of Efon-Alaye
(Nigeria, 1971)
Zhang Zeduan: Spring Festival Along the River (China,
handscroll on silk, late 11 – early 12 centuries)
Jan Vermeer:
The Kitchen Maid
(The Netherlands,
1660)
Georges Seurat: La Grande Jatte (France, 1884)
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother (USA, 1936)
Uji Bridge (Japan, Momoyama period – 16 – 17 centuries)
Kitagawa Utamaro: Komurasaki of the Tamaya Teahouse
(Japan, 1794)
Simon Rodia: Watts Towers
Los Angeles, 1921 - 1954