PowerPoint Presentation plain, Visual Arts and Film Studies:
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Reading: Looking Beyond Property: Native Americans and Photography, by Curtis Marez
Reading Download link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/6qkmr1
After the reading, write about one page of the thesis statement and in a brief (5) minute Power Point presentation. You will present your thesis statement with the presentation of appropriately selected and relevant images (at least three examples). Be prepared to present and articulate the reasoning for your selection of images and why they embellish your thesis statement.
Assignment: Visual Relations of Power
Background:
John Berger (1972) studied the European nude (both past and present) and found that the female model is often put on display directly to the spectator/painter or indirectly through a mirror, thus viewing herself as the painter views her. For Berger these images record the inequality of gender relations and a sexualization of the female image that remains culturally central today. They reassure men of their sexual power and at the same moment deny any sexuality of women other than the male construction. They are evidence of gendered difference… because any effort to replace the woman in these images with a man violates ‘the assumptions of the likely viewer’ (Berger, 1972: 64). That is, it does not fit with expectations but transgresses them and so seems wrong.
[Wykes and Barrie Gunter (pp. 38-39)]
The quotation (above) identifies the basic concept of the “Male Gaze.” Create a well-researched and articulate thesis statement that compares and contrasts Berger’s critique (highlighted above) and its relationship to Marez’s premise of “the colonization of Native Americans through photographic images.” (Attached article)
Reading: Looking Beyond Property: Native Americans and Photography, by Curtis Marez
After the reading, write about one page of the thesis statement and in a brief (5) minute Power Point presentation. You will present your thesis statement with the presentation of appropriately selected and relevant images (at least three examples). Be prepared to present and articulate the reasoning for your selection of images and why they embellish your thesis statement.
Examples from the article:
• Viewing Indians as “subjects as imaginative forms of property.”
• The romanticizing of American Indians through photographic images.
• A contemporary continuation of Indians frozen in the past.
Evaluation:
• The thesis statement was well researched and developed.
• The thesis statement was supported with appropriate visual images.
• Expanded common concepts in Berger’s and Marez’s work.
• Proper references were used when appropriate.