Status Updates From Görme Biçimleri

the art of any period tends to serve the ideological interests of the ruling class

“One might simplify this by saying: men
act and women appear. Men look at women.
Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of
women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most
particularly an object of vision: a sight.”

chp2+3 feminismo imagen de la mujer

“Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
“Now it hangs in a room by itself. The room is like a chapel. The drawing is behind bullet-proof perspex. It has acquired a new kind of impressiveness. Not because of what it shows - not because of the meaning of its image. It has become impressive, mysterious, because of its market value.”

Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent.

[1] Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.