Male art-historical canon
1. Does "male art-historical canon" mean "the male-oriented attitude of art history"?
2. What does "a dysfunctional underbelly" mean in the following context?
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Similarly Janine Antoni’s 1992 Gnaw series, in which large cubes of lard and chocolate are literally bitten into and gnawed by the artist, can be interpreted according to how the aggressive forces of oral-sadism enable new symbolisations of the male art-historical canon, here imbuing the neutrality of minimalist form with a dysfunctional underbelly. The waste material of Antoni’s Gnaw series was sculpted into another series of works, Lick and Lather, two female busts which could be seen as making the object whole again, but...
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catttt 1. Does "male art-historical canon" mean "the male-oriented attitude of art history"? I think so, but "art history" usually means the study of the history of art.
- catttt 1.
- Does "male art-historical canon" mean "the male-oriented attitude of art history"?
- I think so, but "art history" usually means the study of the history of art.
- I think you mean "art's historical male orientation", instead.
- catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "male art-historical canon" mean "the male-oriented attitude of art history"?
I think so, but "art history" usually means the study of the history of art. I think you mean "art's historical male orientation", instead.
catttt2. What does "a dysfunctional underbelly" mean in the following context?
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