The Feminine in Modern Art: Benjamin, Simmel and the Gender of Modernity  

Oleh:

Wolff, Janet

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 17 no. 6 (Des. 2000), page 33–53.
Topik: female culture; feminism; feminization; modernism; objectivity
Fulltext: 33TCAS176.pdf (150.95KB)

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The concept of 'the feminine' has generally been employed to denigrate the work of women artists. A central project of feminist art historians, therefore, has been to challenge the use of the term. This article argues instead that the term can be mobilized in a more productive way, to investigate the very constitution of discourses of gender and, in particular, the discursive production of modernism as itself 'masculine'. Reading for 'inscriptions in the feminine', as well as for tensions and contradictions in 'the masculine', allows for a critical practice which is based on interrogation rather than correction, and which refuses the idea of modernism as monolithic. The article approaches these questions about modern art through a discussion of gender and modernity and, in particular, through an exploration of the prospects of such a critique available in some of the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin.

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