📗 Libro en inglés GENDER VIOLENCE, ART, AND THE VIEWER

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualities of artworks depicting rape murder and other violence but often fail to address the violent content and context Gender Violence Art and the Viewer investigates the role that the art history field has played in the past and can play in the future in education around gender violence in the arts It asks art historians museum educators curators and students to consider how in the time of MeToo a public reckoning with gender violence in art can revitalize the field of art history Contributors to this timely volume amplify the voices and experiences of victims and survivors depicted throughout history critically engage with sexually violent images open meaningful and empowering discussions about visual assaults against women reevaluate how we have viewed and narrated such works and assess how we approach and teach famed works created by artists implicated in gender based violence Gender Violence Art and the Viewer includes contributions by the editors as well as Veronica Alvarez Indira Bailey Melia Belli Bose Charlene Villaseñor Black Ria Brodell Megan Cifarelli Monika Fabijanska Vivien Gre