Title:
The Power of Woe, The Power of Life
Alternate Titles:
Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present
Developer:
- Will Rourk
- New Media Center
- Stephen Margulies
- Johanna Bauman
- Digital Image Center
- Rusty Smith
Publisher:
- University of Virginia
- Bayly Art Museum
Source:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/women/docs/home.html (via Wayback Machine)
Tags:
- Educational
- Simulation
- 3D
- History
- Virtual World
Date Added:
1/22/2022, 10:16:15 PM
Date Modified:
4/26/2023, 9:28:17 PM
Notes:
"Detail Links" and "Original Image" not working.
Original Description:
Images of women are powerful, perhaps more powerful than we can allow ourselves to say or see. Because women have often been treated as the second sex, images of women are paradoxical in their power; and that power has been multiplied hatefully or lovingly by artists through mass production and distribution from the great ages of printmaking through the age of photography and down to our present age of digitization. It is a bitter irony that even misogyny has recognized this power. In fact, the phrase The Power of Women was often used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to refer to the power of women to seduce men otherwise known to be strong or wise. The assumption is that this was unfair, but nowadays one might wonder whether images of victory over strong or wise men don't prove the superiority of women or at least the hypocrisy of male image- making. On the other hand, the power of female saints and of the Virgin Mary were seen to be wholly good; and even the power of Venus or of Fortune or perhaps even of our sinful mother Eve were seen as not wholly bad. For centuries, there was a kind of public debate about the power of women for woe or life, good or evil. Though often misogynist, the debate found writers on both sides of the issue.
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