FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Not a member yet
1367 research outputs found
Sort by
Herrin der Zahlen. Rune Mields Sancta Ratio – Ausstellung im Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen (1.10.-27.11.2005)
Get PDFZu ähnlich – Neue Klitorisbilder aus Kunst und Wissenschaft
Get PDFToo Similar: New Images of the Clitoris in Art and Science What influence do visual and especially digital media have on what is conceived of as a body, especially a female body, from a medical point of view? With examples of new 3D visualizations in film, television, and the fine arts based on a short paper in the US Journal of Urology in 1998 by Helen O’Connell, a “new” discourse on the clitoris is analyzed. Two narratives are found to interweave in this process: one, the belief in 3D visualization derived with the “truth machine” computer; and the other, a claim to the first “objective” anatomical description of the female body by a woman researcher. Instead of referencing feminist and historical anatomical findings, a notion of ahistorical “objectivity” is maintained that interlocks perfectly with the popular myths of the visually unveiled “truth” of the body by digital media. A blow to psychoanalysis, especially Sigmund Freud, is added to these evidence myths with an acclaimed “end of penis envy” through the revelation of the true size of the clitoris. Ironically it was Freud who based his writings on the “real little penis of the woman” – anatomically well informed by the excellent nineteenth-century German anatomical literature on the clitoris
Seelengehäuse: Bilder vom Inneren des Körpers seit dem Entstehen der Humanwissenschaften
Get PDFImages of the Inside of the Body Since the Foundation of Human SciencesThe article aims at analyzing visual aspects in the discourse on the body since the late 19th century. It focuses on visual representations of the body’s interior or – in a broader sense – the idea of an inner core, e.g. the soul or the unconscious tracing of its genealogy from the Early Modern period through to present-day contemporary art. Examples range from Jean Cousin’s “Eva prima Pandora” (1550) to Ivo Saliger’s “Der Röntgenologe schießt mit Röntgenstrahlen auf den Tod” to Odilon Redon and the video works of Tony Oursler
Der Held ist eine (männliche) Auf-Zeichnung. Vorwort
Get PDFIrene Nierhaus The Hero as a (Male) Chronicle. PrefaceThis issue focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary images of mythical fighters. It explores the heroic and its figurations and how these are generated by various media and their particular aesthetic structures. Contributors not only discuss the appearance of such figures in built-up and public spaces, but also explore the discursives spaces in which such figures are appraised and mapped out. Examples are considered beyond their own terms of reference so as to establish i their image-constituting, social, political, cultural, and gendered framings and narrative strategies. What emerges is a deeper insight into how the specific elements and props constituting such figurations (muscles, steel, armour, alignment, etc.) intersect with character attributions (illustrious, strong, courageous, combative, undaunted, assertive, etc.) in specific historical situations and discourses and are thereby (trans)formed in situ (in)to the heroic.
Einleitung. Wissen und Geschlecht: Ein visuelles Amalgam
No full textKnowledge and Gender: A Visual AmalgamFeminist art history has long been interested in the interrelations between image, knowledge, and gender. The introduction briefly sketches the development of feminist research in the field of history of science and art history, focusing especially on the research of Ludwik Fleck in the context of feminist art history
Der Drachenkämpfer Wassily Kandinsky – Über Helden und ihre Verbindungen
Get PDFKathrin HeinzWassily Kandinsky, Dragon Fighter: On Heroes and Their Connections Horsemen and knights, in particular the figure of St. George, are highly prominent motifs in the work of Wassily Kandinsky. This paper focuses on the significance of this recurring motif as a key figure of cultural reference for Kandinsky and explores its identificatory function as regards his positioning as an artist, his artistic development, and his aesthetic programme. It considers Kandinsky constructions of the heroic within the context of his artistic practices of subjectification and strategies of self-assertion. The paper thus casts light on the mythical practices existing within the framework Kandinsky/artist/St. George and how such practices bring forth afresh the dispositif of artistry and masculinity, which is naturalised in the act of painting as it were
Gewaltige Dämmerung. Zum Lichtobjekt "Space aude" von Claudia Reiche
No full textAdventurous Dawn: Claudia Reiche’s “Sapere Aude”Claudia Reiche’s artwork “Sapere aude” combines the scientific image of a female vulva and the words sapere aude – dare to know. What should we dare to know? Something about the so-called “dark continent” of female sexuality? We see not only the image of a vagina but also that of a clitoris..