考陶德開放時間 – 插曲 2 S4: 不雅曝光?

The Courtauld is home to numerous depictions of women historically labelled or deemed courtesans, prostitutes and night-walkers — women of disrepute painted as sexually and/or morally dubious. This Open Courtauld Hour will ask if it is in fact women’s ‘indecent’ exposure, in other words their nudity, that provides legitimised ‘slut-shaming’ in traditional art historical dialogues. We will question why these images of naked women are sanctioned as ’Fine Art’, appropriate and un-bashfully displayed in family-friendly spaces, yet some images of naked women are censored from these places, and beyond, due to assumed ‘overt-sexuality’ and ‘pornographic’ content.

It could be said that ‘sex sells’ exhibition tickets, yet art history has been prone to sanitise the interpretation and display of female bodies. The splendour, the misery and the ambivalent status of the women who pop-up frequently in art history is still too often framed as a signpost to their overarching oppression and lack of voice and choice — essentially the exploitation of artist and viewer. In these modes of thinking, there is little room to recognise women’s sexual agency and power. When you look outside the white-masculinist-western canon, unclothed does not necessarily point to frailty. The female gaze and the harnessing of female erotic power is prevalent and celebrated in art from around the world (both historic and contemporary).

In this hour, we are teaming up with Rosumund Garret (Associate Curator of European & Decorative Arts, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), Heather Nickels (Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora at Brooks Museum of Art), Kate Lister (Founder of Whores of Yore, author of ‘A Curious History of Sex and Lecturer in the School of Arts and Communication at Leeds Trinity University) and Imma Ramos (Curator of the South Asia collections at the British Museum and lead Curator of ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’) and more to lay bare the contradictory, complex and challengeable shame and stigma associated with some representations of nude females and not others.

這個在線迷你係列將提供簡潔的一小時彈出講座包, 表演和詳細的對象研究課程，探索和慶祝我們的收藏, 藝術史研究, 策展和保護.

該系列將觸及相關問題——通過藝術史領域放大當代社會思維. These episodes will explore how the public, artists and galleries are adapting to a digital world, showcasing art historical research in light of this global pandemic and providing a platform for creative practice in the age of social distancing.

最重要的是, 因為藝術與所有人有關, 這些非正式會議將使與會者有機會訪問, 通過不同的視角參與和閱讀藝術和藝術史——通過重述隱藏的故事來改造和重新思考藝術史討論. 這些劇集將提供新的視角, 藝術實踐的新途徑, 通過影響我們所有人的主題來看待藝術並閱讀其歷史.

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