Contemporary+Perspective

= CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE =

1) Ideas of beauty and taste have change to new meanings.  a)  People in the West influence their choice due to their views towards works of art. b) Many contemporary philosophers have question the idea of fixed concepts.   c)  // Post Modern Condition // published in 1979, by **Jean-François Lyotard** argued that the grand narratives formed the foundation of western societies since the 18th century. i Proposed that thinking about art shifted from aesthetic to societal model. ii A societal model represents people’s differing interests, desires, and concerns among their beauty ideas. 2) Feminist Aesthetics a) ** Linda Nochlin ** asked why haven’t there be any great artist in her book, //Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays.// i) Her question presented one of the first feminist challenges to established traditions of art history, which focuses on art created by men. ii) Argued that the fact of the lack of names of women on art, had to be due to the actively creating art of women. iii) Maintaining the excluding of women from art, she raised awareness of the feminist issues in art and aesthetics. b) ** Marilyn French ** is an American author, with an example of feminist artist who continuously raises issues of women’s experiences. i) // Women’s Room // published in 1977, presented a world without a co-existence between the two sexes. ii) // War against Women // published in 1992, was an essay were French stated that a threat had been given to the feminist movement in order to be disempowering and subjugating women. iii) Feminism provides insights into women as subjects and objects of art making and allows a new model in which artist are more aware of gender issues.