Because I am a Woman
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MUST SEE: A Teen Pregnancy PSA That Goes Where No Campaign Has Gone Before
For those of us who are tired of teen pregnancy PSAs that forget it takes two to make a baby. See more at the source.
Hm…. I’m wondering what are everyone else’s thoughts on this one? Definitely something different.
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Coming to Chicago April 2013!!
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So today in art history, we watched a short clippette about Judy Chicago, a blooming (heh, you’ll soon understand this pun) artist in the mid to late 20th century who attracted a grand amount of controversy, particularly over the most famous of her works, The Dinner Party. Most in fact would not so much as humor it as art. Why was so so widely detested you might ask? Because there, sculpted and painted and slapped on dinner plates, were vaginas for all to see. Oh right, and they weren’t just vaginas but those of specific women, those who had been omitted from history when they had quite obviously earned their places there. THERE WAS UPROAR. Not only at the public level, but at that of politics and people of power. Grotesque they called it.
So what was Judy Chicago trying to portray? At first I thought the piece a little carelessly thought-out, and in fact my first thought was that it was anti-feminist as it seemed to offer the vaginas, symbols of womanhood, not only to the taking but to the consumption as part of the lavish lay. Turning this thought over in my head once or twice I realized that The Dinner Table was indeed doing just that, but rather than endorse this mindset it mocked it through submission to its ridiculous ideals in a sort of sarcasm. The second thing it did was to show the beauty and uniqueness of each vagina. If you’ve ever seen a vagina, you know that they’re fucking ugly, but what they represent (female sexuality and….I suppose…childbirth) is rather spectacular. I think what I love most about it though is the brashness of it, the seeming pomp and splendor of a feast with each course something so shocking placed in that context. WHICH IS ALSO WHY I LOVELOVELOVE DUCHAMP’S FOUNTAIN. Brilliant stuff.
Ok, ranting and bubbling and babbling and such over with.
There is nothing ugly about genitals, but this is a really cool piece!
