ANOart

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/feb/17/features.review137

Keep young and beautiful

 

 I couldn't believe it when I saw this clip from the film Roman Scandals- made in 1933 after the flapper girls of the 1920s had shorn their hair and made their mark

Killing us softly

Jean Kilbourne talks about how the media affects women through the use of images. Pro skinny, pro violence, pro sexualisation creates a unrealistic, unnatainable beauty norm that women are supposed to compete with and strive for.

FATart

http://www.foodmuseum.com/exfatArt.html

Natalia LL

http://www.nataliall.com/

 Post Consumer Art 1975

 

 

Art Must Be Beautiful Artist Must Be Beautiful

 

 

 

Marina Abramović Art Must Be Beautiful Artist Must Be Beautiful 1975

     

"I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat 'Art must be beautiful', 'Artist must be beautiful', until I have destroyed my hair and face"

Step Up

                                              stills from Step Up


Constant rhythmic beats, counting out the desperate attempts to achieve ideal beauty

seduce and destroy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n2IVF9a2IA

"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them"
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch

and the spiders escaped the ever rising waters by fleeing to the trees where they watched with horror as the ground was swallowed up

Spiders in the trees...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370181/Millions-spiders-crawled-trees-creepy-effect-Pakistan-floods.html

Riot grrrls

Here's a link to a Guardian article about the riot grrrl movement from the 90s:

"From hundreds of once pink, frilly bedrooms comes the young feminist revolution," began a USA Today article of 1992, one of many that year trying to describe the Riot Grrrl movement taking root in America. This particular article added a word of caution: "And it's not pretty."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/04/grrrl-power-music

Don't say I'm not good to you.

Reclaim the night

Reclaim the night was started by the feminist movement in 1976 as a protest against rape and sexual violence against women:
http://www.reclaimthenight.org/why.html

Voracious Maw

 

Stills from Voracious Maw

"I ate knowing full well that I'd feel bloated and flooded with disgust later on and that I'd have to make restitution- I'd starve the next day, or go for a six mile run, or both. I ate without pleasure, I ate until I hurt" 

extract from Appetites- why women want Caroline Knapp