Cultural Representations Females

Question 1

George Gissing

Answer 1

‘Sexual anarchy’

Question 2

Voracious femme fatale

Answer 2

Ludwig Von Hofmann’s 1897 ‘the Valley of Innocence’, where a huge adolescent girl plays w naked body of tiny man, and beside her is a knife and a pile of decapitated male bodies while other men wait their turn to be massacred GULLIVER’S TRAVELS!!!!

Question 3

Gynecidal visions of female sexuality

Answer 3

Bram Dijkstra termed ‘idols of perversity’

Question 4

George Gissing men became women quote

Answer 4

‘Men became women. Women became men. Gender and country were out in doubt’

Question 5

Ludwig Von Hofmann’s painting

Answer 5

The Valley of Innocence 1897

Question 6

Just like Freud’s accounts of hysterical patients…

Answer 6

Art and literature in this period becomes fragmented, contradictory, incoherent

Question 7

George Gissing ‘the Odd Woman’

Answer 7

The title means ‘les femmes superflues’ - the women who are odd in the sense that they do not make a match; as we say ‘an odd glove’

Question 8

John Singer Sargent

Answer 8

Violet Paget - Vernon Lee - an odd woman

Question 9

If one compares the figure of Judith with that of the traditional new like

Answer 9

Titian’s Venus of urbino, and Mandy’s Olympia

Question 10

Klimt’s depictions of women

Answer 10

• Judith
• Sonja Knips
• Pallas athene
• Adele Bloch-Bauer
• philosophy

Question 11

Pallas Athene

Answer 11

I signs of the Seccession, obdurate gaze, distressed surface paggern and intense glaring eyes

Question 12

Adele Bloch-Bauer

Answer 12

Sexual symbolism of eyes could represent sperm and ova (Emily Braun)

Question 13

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1855

Answer 13

‘America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is preoccupied with their trash’