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"Everything
Will Be OK: Temporal Art, Social Permanence" |
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Presented at the
Art History Paper Competition Symposium,
May 9th 2007
at Savannah College of Art & Design.
Essay won first place within the
graduate section
in Savannah College of Art & Design's
Art History Paper Competition. |
Female Sexual Identity: Reclaiming
Power Through Jenny Holzer’s
Art
Society forces women to repress their sexual individuality,
thus robbing the gender of their power. An individual’s
truth, liberation and identity can be found through their
sexuality and it is the responsibility of the woman to find
their sexual independence. There have been many attempts
from females artists to reclaim this power. A confusion on
the type of power needed in order to acquire female sexual
identity is creating an aggressive gender that is self-inflicting
pain in the struggle to gain inner-power. This aggressive
search for identity through visual representations of possessive
power is seen in the work of Barbara Kruger and Tracey Emin.
The female gender repeats these visual interpretations of
possessive power, filling the void of control with violence
and sex. The balance of control can be regained by the female
gender through the power of language. Jenny Holzer utilizes
the power of text in search of the female identity by interpreting
the feminized power in her art, allowing women to gain inner
power through sexual independence.
Reebie Storage:
An Art Deco Egyptomania Gem in Chicago
While discussions on Egyptomania in architecture are commonplace,
very few focus specifically on the historic gem in Chicago,
Reebie Storage. Located on Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois,
Reebie Storage is a magnificent and rare surviving example
of accurately applied Egyptian motifs within a commercial
building. The paper will begin by laying out the roots of
1920s Egyptomania, touching upon the nineteenth century revival.
This background will create a base to cite the Egyptian Revival
architecture that followed with little to no fidelity to
the ancient Egyptian culture. These examples will include
obelisks, funerary monuments and end with Egyptian themed
theaters. These examples of Egyptian Revival architecture
as well as direct comparisons to ancient Egyptian structures
will provide ample cases to contrast against the exterior
of the Reebie building. Exploration into the unique qualities
of the Reebie building will pay focus to this rare example
of an accurately designed Egyptian Revival building and support
its importance in Art Deco architecture.
