2020/03/31 by Mark Windsor · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Photography and Visual Culture #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Cinema and Media Studies
paper · doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayaa017
openalex publication_date 2020/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Since Simone de Beauvoir famously declared that ‘one is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ (2010, p. 293), it has become common to think of gender identity not as something inherent but acquired. Taking this idea as its starting point, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography brings together works from over fifty artists from 1960 to the present using photography and film to explore ways in which masculinity has been ‘experienced, performed, coded, and socially constructed’ (Alison and Pardo, 2020, p. 6). The exhibition is a rich and multifaceted exploration of masculine visual identities in art. Charting the increasing destabilisation...