@NormandNavarrette [name pseudonymized] [02]: #CourtauldGallery highlights "#MaleGaze" in #Manet masterpiece in #woke attempt "to call out #misogyny"
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@JaylaPortaro [name pseudonymized]: ‘Misogyny’ alert for art lovers after scrutiny of Manet painting
Courtauld accused of wantonly #woke gesture as work’s male presence said to have ‘unsettling’ effect [URL redacted]
#OtheringHateMisogyny #EDUUKUniversityOfLondonCourtauldInstituteOfArt
Context: #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCraigSimpson "The 'male gaze' in a Manet masterpiece has been highlighted by the Courtauld Gallery after curators introduced new labels addressing 'misogyny' in art. ...
Manet's masterpiece, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, has been reinterpreted with a new label which suggests that the painting has an 'unsettling' quality, because of the presence of a man on the canvas.
The 1882 work depicts a barmaid staring out at the viewer of the painting and - in a mirrored image - towards a male patron of the eponymous Folies-Bergère (a Parisian cabaret club) who returns her gaze.
The masterpiece has been relabelled to suggest the presence of a man gives it an 'unsettling quality'
The 1882 work depicts a barmaid staring out at the viewer of the painting and - in a mirrored image - towards a male patron of the eponymous Folies-Bergère
The female subject's 'enigmatic expression is unsettling', a new information panel states, 'especially as she appears to be interacting with a male customer'.
The suggestion that an 'unsettling' quality of the painting is enhanced because the woman talking to a man has been criticised for unwitting 'misogyny', because it diminishes the position of the female model in the work." #TheoryMaleGaze
Supplementary: https://courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergere/
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@TrentonDipetrillo [name pseudonymized] [17]: #Patricia #Cornwell: I put #woke fisherfolk in my stories to avoid rocking the boat [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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@YvonneBodien [name pseudonymized]: On the same page in @Telegraph (Sunday). I despair how this country is consumed by re-inforcing weakness. Why should #Tedhughes apologise for his ancestray? And, as for a passer-by in Brighton objecting to the #WinstonChurchill wall art....wtf? #woke won't win. [URL redacted]
#OrgUKTheBritishLibrary #IndivHistoricalFigureTedHughes #PowerControlChattelSlavery
Context: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/21/british-library-adds-poet-ted-hughes-slavery-dossier-ancestor/ And https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/24/british-library-apologises-widow-ted-hughes-tenuous-slavery/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
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