"Through looking we negotiate social relationships and meanings. Looking is a practice much like speaking, writing, or signing. Looking involves learning to interpret and, like other practices, looking involves relationships of power."
We are always looking; looking for admiration, curiosity, and understanding. By looking at all things around us, we learn new things and reduce uncertainty. In "Looking and the Gaze", men are portrayed as the dominant group, who have to power to look and objectify women. While the women are the ones being looked at, they begin to view themselves as objects.
The appearance of a woman is stereotyped as nurturing, emotional, attractive, subjective, and private. The appearance of a man is stereotyped as reasonable, objective, powerful, strong, and public. The various photographs portray women as very feminine and gentle.
The dualism implicit in the Dürer image of the artist drawing the nude implies subordination of the woman. We do not see nearly as many drawings of nude men, for they hold the power of the looker and are thought to be the ones looking and admiring the women as objects. Again, the women are subordinate to men and therefore seek to please the man by becoming objects of desire.
The appearance of a woman is stereotyped as nurturing, emotional, attractive, subjective, and private. The appearance of a man is stereotyped as reasonable, objective, powerful, strong, and public. The various photographs portray women as very feminine and gentle.
The dualism implicit in the Dürer image of the artist drawing the nude implies subordination of the woman. We do not see nearly as many drawings of nude men, for they hold the power of the looker and are thought to be the ones looking and admiring the women as objects. Again, the women are subordinate to men and therefore seek to please the man by becoming objects of desire.
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