So midterms are officially the bane of my existence, hence why at 1:29 Wednesday night/ Thursday morning, I am not awake because of a glorious adventure to bomb night, but at Grainger writing about Roman marriage law. I know I lead the crazy, unbelievable life that everyone should and does envy!
Random question for the day. I'm reading this play for my Scandinavian Lit class, Britta I blame you, and there's this gendered association with painting being a feminine art while writing is somehow more logical and masculine. On one level I get it, I see how through history writing has received an association with the a rational thought process and in turn has been masculinized in opposition to the perception of women as being led by their emotions and not logic, but when did painting become the pansy art? I guess I missed it, but weren't all the greats men? Yeah there were women artist, and good ones, but when the traditional cannon of art history is discussed, say in a survey course, it's a group of male painters. It doesn't bug me terribly as my favorite painters are men, but when did this feminizing of painting and the visual arts happen?
I think I need less caffeine and a life. Love and miss you both.
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With the painting thing, it could also be that art, especially painting, has been about capturing beauty, a term definitely more associated with the female gender than the male. Nudes after a certain point became solely of women, a attempt to capture the ´beauty of the human body.´ The only form of writing that could be characterized as a womanly art would be poetry because it too is more sentimental and emotional, more about beauty and generally less about ideas (well some of it, damn rhyming philosophers!)Its like that Adlai Stevenson speech, woman are the representatives of culture in the household, and what is more ´ high culture´ than painting and poetry? Something about femininity is deeply intertwined with an importance of beauty, something that visual art is historically trying to capture.
ehh, just an idea.
miss you
In regards to your profile thang: Kisses that last 3 days? Good luck breathing/surviving, or breaking a world record? interesting concept though...
:) hehe
Yay, I get blamed for all things Scandinavian, although yes, I did show you this course, so I would blame me too.
Love and miss you!
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