Review of INTRODUCING WITH OTHER EYES: LOOKING AT RACE AND GENDER IN VISUAL CULTURE
“…we are trying to define a different kind of looking, which takes into
account sometimes incompatible theories of representation,
performance theory, feminist theory, and colonial discourse that are
each contested on their own, and even more controversial when put
together.” Those are the key words form the reading introducing
with Other Eyes.
As I understand this idea after read the article, I want to give a
simple example, in the society; each person has identity, such as
root, family name, gender and different personality. People and
things are always influence each other. It is hard to see something
or someone separately.
Our world also divides different countries, and we are belonging to a
family or community. Normal people can get influence by famous
people. There is a great graphic by ancient Chinese, called Tai Ji. A
black and white ‘fish’, they can be symbolically as men and women,
bad and good, rich and poor, night and morning, east and west(from
nature space to social structure) …. Something opposite but always
move and influence each other and good things can change to bad
things. (In the attachment)
The reading supports this point. In the page 67, the last
paragraph, “…feminist and queer artists/theories were not really fully
compatible with or even an example of postmodern thought even
though many were very influenced by postmodernism.”
Also, for the point ‘opposite’, whether East or West, they are all
have many similarities. There is an example in the reading, page
65, ‘the canon and traditional aesthetics’, very nature dispenses with
hierarchical cultural distinctions, ‘ high versus low, elite versus mass,
modern versus folk, Western versus non-West.’
To be specific in the gender area, female had been treated unequally
between men by historical influence, religion, traditional value, and
political rules. However, the author interpret the same point into
border group of practitioners, which includes gay men and lesbian
women, color, Jewish. Not only women are always seeing by male
gaze, those group people are also challenge the tradition and social
identity.
account sometimes incompatible theories of representation,
performance theory, feminist theory, and colonial discourse that are
each contested on their own, and even more controversial when put
together.” Those are the key words form the reading introducing
with Other Eyes.
As I understand this idea after read the article, I want to give a
simple example, in the society; each person has identity, such as
root, family name, gender and different personality. People and
things are always influence each other. It is hard to see something
or someone separately.
Our world also divides different countries, and we are belonging to a
family or community. Normal people can get influence by famous
people. There is a great graphic by ancient Chinese, called Tai Ji. A
black and white ‘fish’, they can be symbolically as men and women,
bad and good, rich and poor, night and morning, east and west(from
nature space to social structure) …. Something opposite but always
move and influence each other and good things can change to bad
things. (In the attachment)
The reading supports this point. In the page 67, the last
paragraph, “…feminist and queer artists/theories were not really fully
compatible with or even an example of postmodern thought even
though many were very influenced by postmodernism.”
Also, for the point ‘opposite’, whether East or West, they are all
have many similarities. There is an example in the reading, page
65, ‘the canon and traditional aesthetics’, very nature dispenses with
hierarchical cultural distinctions, ‘ high versus low, elite versus mass,
modern versus folk, Western versus non-West.’
To be specific in the gender area, female had been treated unequally
between men by historical influence, religion, traditional value, and
political rules. However, the author interpret the same point into
border group of practitioners, which includes gay men and lesbian
women, color, Jewish. Not only women are always seeing by male
gaze, those group people are also challenge the tradition and social
identity.
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