It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. ... (The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer p. 1) The development of a bourgeois economy and a free-commercial art market resulted in a significant change in the kind of art produced. ... Art dealers sold work to middle-class citizens, who often purchased as much for investment and resale as for aesthetic pleasure. ... The emphatically doubled elements of domestic chaos, emphasized by Maes's tipped-up perspective, form a jarring com...

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In her review, she mentions that the ballet world is a male dominated craft although the aesthetics of such an art have always been an idealization of the female form. ... This shows how hard-working dancers need to be in order for people to appreciate the true beauty of their art. It is important to consider these aspects when we sit down to watch a form of art that relies on such precise fluid body movements. ... Fisher mentions "If [the art director] embodies patriarchy, then Nina's relationship with other women shows the damage that patriarchy has done. " Jacobs mentions "Under the p...

• Word Count: 1384
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In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. ... Art critic, and writer John Ruskin wrote the article Sesame and Lilies, it is a primary source published in 1865 to use as a lecture, which was given in Manchester on December 6, 1864. ... Other forms of literature in which women are represented are verse and song. ....

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Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media, constitutes an eroticizing of sexual inequality - as opposed to merely a celebrating of female sexuality - because it implicitly imposes a male perspective on the definition of female sexuality. ... Nearly one-tenth of young American women and one...

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The most visible element of hip-hop, the most commercially viable, is the art of rap, one enjoyed and performed by both men and women alike. ... The culture defines the word hip-hop as "intelligent movement", "hip" coming from the word "hippie" which signifies to "open your eyes and see", "hop" deriving from the English meaning "movement" (Akala); however, not all forms stayed true to this ideal. ...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. ... This perpetuates the notion that women are just prizes, and legitimate pieces of art. ... When women watch music videos or any other form of media that inaccurately portrays women they get the sense that it is okay to dress scantily to get the attention of a man. ...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate