dominique’s Reviews > Methods and Theories of Art History > Status Update

"for the individual artist, personal intentions may be important, but in the larger cultural sense, art cannot be reduced to the intentions of the maker. an artist may communicate things without intending to do so... texts owe more to other texts than to their own makers."

reading about psychoanalysis while listening to mike's mic break down nicki minaj's live performance of "where them girls at" (the one where she keeps the chicken leg in her mouth for a couple of seconds) is an experience

i hate psychoanalysis

i had to read homi bhabha's convoluted-ass "the location of culture" for my master's when i could've just read THIS book instead!! i'm so offended for my poor 2020 brain

"not only do artists themselves sometimes perform or undermine mainstream gender identities and sexualities in their own lives, they also create images that perpetuate or challenge mainstream gender identities and sexualities"

female artists may share as much/more with male artists of their own culture as they do with female artists of other cultures and times... at the same time, aspects of the female experience that are continuous are due to the persistence of sexist institutions, beliefs, and practices

materialist and marxist art history is so fascinating!!