Lecture 002 - The Gaze and The Media

Helen.clarke@leeds-art.ac.uk

(Berger 1972 - Quote)

Different images and paintings we looked at: 

Pictures of women…

- Hans memling 'Vanity' (1485) 

- Alexandre Cabanel 'Birth of Venus' 1863

- Sophie Dahl for Opium - advert

- Titian's Venus of Urbino, 1538 

- Manet - 'Olympia' 1862

- Manet - 'Bar at the Folies Bergeres' 1882 - Jeff Wall 'Picture For Women' (1979)

- Coward, R. 1984 - The Camera in contemporary media has been put to use as an extension of the male gaze at women on the streets. 

- Eva Herzigova, 'Hello Boys' 1994 - Advertisement caused car crashes 

- Coward, R. 1984 - The profusion of images which characterises contemporary society could be seen as an obsessive distancing of women…a form of voyeurism.

Pictures of men….

- Dolce & Gabbana advert 2007 

Films:

- Marilyn: William Travillas dress from 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955)

- Lara croft: Tomb Raider

• A visual spectacle to be consumed 
• An overly secularised object 
• Pleasure is in the fantasy of her destruction 

Cinema is the perfect place and setting for looking at adverts of nudes or films with nudes in because no one can see the other looking because you are in the dark. 

- the truman show - link that in....