John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 2 (1972)
概要
TLDRDie video ontleed die voorstelling van vroue in Europese oil painting, met 'n fokus op hoe vroue as objekte van manlike begeerte afgebeeld word. Dit dui op die druk op vroue om hulself aan te pas by die standaarde van hoe hulle beskou word, sowel as die voortdurende selfevaluasie wat hulle ervaar. Die video ondersoek ook hoe naaktheid in kuns nie net 'n weergawes van realiteit is nie, maar eerder 'n simboliese voorstelling van hoe vroue in 'n patriargale samelewing gesien word, en hoe dit hulle selfbeeld en persepsies oor hulself benadeel.
収穫
- 👀 Vroue is voortdurend bewus van hoe hulle deur ander gesien word.
- 🖼️ Naaktheid in kuns is 'n weerspieëling van manlike begeerte.
- 📸 Vroue leer om hulself te evalueer volgens ander se persepsies.
- 🔍 Die blikke wat vroue ontvang, dra 'n oordeel met hulle saam.
- 🎨 Europese nude kuns fokus op die objektivering van die vrou.
- 🙅♀️ Naakheid word dikwels gesien as 'n masker eerder as 'n werklike self.
- 📖 Historiese kontekste vorm hedendaagse beeldspraak van vroue.
- 👁️ Vroulike selfbeeld is beïnvloed deur kulturele en artistieke voorstellings.
- 👠 Die idee van beskikbaarheid is 'n tema in vroulike voorstellings.
- 👩🎨 Kuns het 'n langdurige invloed op vroulike identiteite.
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- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
Die droom van mans oor vroue en vroue oor hulself strek tot hoe hulle deur mans dopgehou word. Vroue word voortdurend herinner aan hoe hulle lyk en hoe hulle beskou word, wat 'n negatiewe impak het op hul selfbeeld en identiteit.
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Vroue word geleer om hulself deur ander se oë te beskou, wat lei tot 'n voortdurende behoeftes om te voldoen aan die skoonheidsideale van die samelewing. Hierdie selfondersoek inligting is noodsaaklik vir wat beskou word as hulle lewens sukses.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
In die kuns van die Europese huile, veral in die nude-kategrorie, word vroue as voorwerpe gesien. Hierdie nude is nie bloot om kaal te wees nie, maar om as objektiewe skoonheid gesien te word deur 'n manlike kyker, wat vroue in 'n subserviente posisie plaas.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Die verhaal van Adam en Eva en die bydrae van die vrou se skuld is belangrik, aangesien dit die manier waarop mans en vroue mekaar beskou, en die terugkerende disfunksie van seksuele dinamika in Europese kuns illustreer.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Nude en naaktheid word verskillend beskou; naak is om jouself te wees terwyl 'n nude jou as 'n voorwerp beskou. Vroue in kuns is meestal in 'n posisie waar hulle op standby is vir die manlike kykers se genieting, wat onaangenaam en vernederend kan wees.
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Vroue word dikwels op die manier verteenwoordig dat hul naaktheid 'n afspiegeling is van mans se begeertes eerder as hul eie seksualiteit. Die voorstelling van vroue in hierdie paintings het min te doen met die werklike essensie van die vrou, maar eerder met die manlike maatstaf vir skoonheid.
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ビデオQ&A
Wat is die belangrikste tema van die video?
Die video bespreek hoe vroue in Europese kuns afgebeeld word, veral in die konteks van naaktheid en manlike blik.
Hoe word 'n nude gedefinieer in die video?
Die video stel voor dat 'n nude gesien moet word as 'n objek deur ander, terwyl naakheid nie noodwendig geassosieer word met die werklike self nie.
Watter invloed het kuns op die vroulike selfbeeld?
Die video argumenteer dat die manier waarop vroue in kuns voorgestel word, 'n groot invloed het op hoe vroue hulself beskou.
Wat is die verband tussen blikke en oordeel?
In die video word gesê dat elke blik wat 'n vrou ontvang 'n oordeel impliseer, wat kan kom van haar eie refleksie of van ander.
Waarom is naaktheid in kuns belangrik?
Naaktheid in kuns bied 'n platform vir die ondersoek van seksueel en estetiese aansien, maar dikwels gereed om aan die manlike blik te voldoen.
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- 00:00:02men dream of women women dream of
- 00:00:06themselves being dreamt of men look at
- 00:00:09women women watch themselves being
- 00:00:12looked at
- 00:00:17[Music]
- 00:00:45[Music]
- 00:00:47women constantly meet glances which act
- 00:00:50like mirrors reminding them of how they
- 00:00:52look or how they should know
- 00:00:55behind every glance is a judgment
- 00:00:58sometimes the glance they meet is their
- 00:01:01own reflected back from a real man
- 00:01:16[Music]
- 00:01:26[Music]
- 00:01:43[Music]
- 00:02:20a woman is always accompanied except
- 00:02:22when quite alone perhaps even then by
- 00:02:26her own image of herself while she is
- 00:02:28walking across a room or weeping at the
- 00:02:31death of her father she cannot avoid
- 00:02:34envisaging herself walking or weeping
- 00:02:36from earliest childhood she is taught
- 00:02:38and persuaded to survey herself
- 00:02:41continually she has to survey everything
- 00:02:45she is and everything she does
- 00:02:46because how she appears to others and
- 00:02:48particularly how she appears to men is
- 00:02:50of crucial importance what is normally
- 00:02:53thought of as the success of her life
- 00:03:00[Music]
- 00:03:08a woman in the culture of privileged
- 00:03:17Europeans is first and foremost a sight
- 00:03:20to be looked at what kind of sight is
- 00:03:23revealed in the average European oil
- 00:03:26painting there were portraits of women
- 00:03:29as a reporter's of men but in one
- 00:03:31category of painting women were the
- 00:03:32principal ever occurring subject that
- 00:03:36category was the nude in the nudes of
- 00:03:39European painting we can discover some
- 00:03:41of the criteria and conventions by which
- 00:03:44women were judged we can see how women
- 00:03:46was seen what then is a nude
- 00:03:56in his book on the nude Kenneth Clark
- 00:03:59says that being naked is simply being
- 00:04:02without clothes the nude according to
- 00:04:06him is a form of art I would put it
- 00:04:11differently to be naked is to be oneself
- 00:04:15to be nude is to be seen naked by others
- 00:04:18and yet not recognized for oneself a
- 00:04:21nude has to be seen as an object in
- 00:04:25order to be a nude in the European oil
- 00:04:30painting nakedness is not taken for
- 00:04:32granted as in archaic art nakedness is a
- 00:04:36sight for those who are dressed that is
- 00:04:38why manna is painting which really marks
- 00:04:40the end of the period I'm considering is
- 00:04:42so profound the comment on all the works
- 00:04:44which preceded it the story begins with
- 00:04:48the story of Adam and Eve as told in
- 00:04:50Genesis and when the woman saw that the
- 00:04:54tree was good for food and it was a
- 00:04:56delight to the eyes and that the tree
- 00:04:58was to be desired to make one wise she
- 00:05:00took of the fruit thereof and did eat
- 00:05:02and she gave also unto her husband with
- 00:05:05her and he did eat and the eyes of them
- 00:05:08both were opened and they knew that they
- 00:05:10were naked and the Lord God called unto
- 00:05:13the man and said unto Him where art thou
- 00:05:15and he said I heard thy voice in the
- 00:05:18garden and I was afraid because I was
- 00:05:20naked and I hid myself under the woman
- 00:05:23God said I will greatly multiply thy
- 00:05:26sorrow and thy conception in sorrow thou
- 00:05:29shalt bring forth children and thy
- 00:05:31desire shall be to thy husband and he
- 00:05:33shall rule over thee two things are
- 00:05:39striking about this story they become
- 00:05:42aware of being naked because as a result
- 00:05:45of eating the Apple each sees the other
- 00:05:48differently nakedness is created in the
- 00:05:51mind of the beholder
- 00:05:53the second striking fact is that the
- 00:05:56woman is blamed and is punished by being
- 00:05:59made subservient to the man in relation
- 00:06:02to the woman the man becomes the agent
- 00:06:04of God
- 00:06:07in medieval art the story is often
- 00:06:09illustrated seen following seen as in a
- 00:06:12strip cartoon during the Renaissance the
- 00:06:16narrative sequence disappears and the
- 00:06:19single moment which is nadir always
- 00:06:21depicted is the moment of shame the
- 00:06:25couple wear fig leaves or make a modest
- 00:06:28gesture with their hands but now their
- 00:06:31shame is not so much in relation to one
- 00:06:33another as to the spectator it is the
- 00:06:35spectators looking which shames them
- 00:06:39later as painting became more secular
- 00:06:42many other subjects offered the
- 00:06:44opportunity of painting nudes but always
- 00:06:47in the European tradition the nude
- 00:06:49implies an awareness of being seen by
- 00:06:53the spectator they are not naked as they
- 00:06:57are they are naked as you see them
- 00:07:08often as with a favorite subject of
- 00:07:11Susana and the elders this is the actual
- 00:07:13theme of the picture we join the elders
- 00:07:16to spy on her she looks back at us
- 00:07:22looking at her sometimes the woman
- 00:07:26Susana looks at herself in a mirror
- 00:07:29picturing to herself how men see her she
- 00:07:33sees herself first and foremost as a
- 00:07:36sight which means a sight for men
- 00:07:39thus the Miller became a symbol of the
- 00:07:42vanity of women yet the male hypocrisy
- 00:07:45in this is blatant you paint a naked
- 00:07:48woman because you enjoy looking at her
- 00:07:50you put a mirror in her hand and you
- 00:07:54call the painting vanity thus morally
- 00:07:57condemning the woman whose nakedness you
- 00:07:59have depicted for your own pleasure and
- 00:08:01thus incidentally repeating the biblical
- 00:08:04example by blaming the woman the
- 00:08:08judgment of Paris was another favorite
- 00:08:10mythological subject with the same in
- 00:08:12written idea of men looking at naked
- 00:08:14women and judging them Paris Awards the
- 00:08:18Apple to the woman he finds most
- 00:08:20beautiful beauty in this context is
- 00:08:23bound to become competitive the judgment
- 00:08:26of Paris is transformed into the beauty
- 00:08:29contest aesthetics when applied to women
- 00:08:32are not as disinterested as the word
- 00:08:35Beauty might suggest I don't want to
- 00:08:41deny the crucial part that seeing plays
- 00:08:44in sexuality but there's a great
- 00:08:46difference between being seen as oneself
- 00:08:48naked or seeing another in that way and
- 00:08:50a body being put on display to be naked
- 00:08:55is to be without disguise to be on
- 00:08:58display is to have the surface of one's
- 00:09:01own skin the hairs of one's own body
- 00:09:03turned into a disguise a disguise which
- 00:09:07cannot be discarded amongst the tens of
- 00:09:11thousands of European oil paintings of
- 00:09:12nudes there are perhaps twenty or thirty
- 00:09:15exceptions paintings in which the artist
- 00:09:18has seen the woman revealed as herself
- 00:09:21this Rubens this Rembrandt
- 00:09:30this George de la tour these paintings
- 00:09:35are as personal as love to hymns and
- 00:09:37their character is quite distinctive
- 00:09:40most nudes in oil paintings have been
- 00:09:43lined up by their painters for the
- 00:09:45pleasure of the male spectator owner who
- 00:09:48will assess and judge them as sites
- 00:09:52their nudity is another form of dress
- 00:09:55they are condemned to never be naked
- 00:09:58with their clothes off they are as
- 00:10:01formal as with their clothes on those
- 00:10:05who are not judged beautiful are not
- 00:10:08beautiful
- 00:10:09those who are are given the prize the
- 00:10:13prize is to be owned that is to say to
- 00:10:16be available charles ii commissioned
- 00:10:20this secret painting from laylee it's
- 00:10:23like hundreds of others it might be
- 00:10:25Venus and Cupid but in fact it was a
- 00:10:28portrait of one of his mistresses nell
- 00:10:30gwyn it shows how passively looking at
- 00:10:32the spectator staring at her naked her
- 00:10:37nakedness is not an expression of her
- 00:10:39own feelings it is only a sign of her
- 00:10:43submission to his demand the painting
- 00:10:48when he shows it to others demonstrates
- 00:10:50this submission his guests envied him by
- 00:10:54contrast in another tradition nakedness
- 00:10:57is a celebration of active sexual love
- 00:11:00as between two people the woman as
- 00:11:02active as the man the actions of each
- 00:11:06absorbed the other in oil painting the
- 00:11:11second person or the second person who
- 00:11:14matters is the stranger looking at the
- 00:11:16picture compare the expression of these
- 00:11:19two women one the model for what is
- 00:11:23considered a masterpiece by Aang and the
- 00:11:26other a nil paid model for a photograph
- 00:11:28in a girly magazine or these two
- 00:11:34just the expression the look what do you
- 00:11:38see it seems to me that in each pair the
- 00:11:42expression is remarkably similar and
- 00:11:44that it is an expression of responding
- 00:11:46with calculated charm to the man whom
- 00:11:49she knows is looking at her although she
- 00:11:51doesn't know him it is true that
- 00:11:54sometimes a painting includes a male
- 00:11:56lover but the woman's attention is very
- 00:11:59rarely directed towards him she looks
- 00:12:02away from him or she looks out of the
- 00:12:04picture towards he who considers himself
- 00:12:06a true lover the spectator owner this
- 00:12:11painting was sent as a present from the
- 00:12:13Grand Duke of lanced the King of France
- 00:12:15the boy kneeling on the cushion and
- 00:12:17kissing the woman is Cupid she's Venus
- 00:12:19but the way her body is arranged has
- 00:12:22nothing to do with that kissing her body
- 00:12:25is arranged in the way it is to display
- 00:12:27it to the man looking at the picture the
- 00:12:30picture is made to appeal to his
- 00:12:32sexuality it has nothing to do with her
- 00:12:35sexuality the convention of not painting
- 00:12:38the hair on a woman's body helps towards
- 00:12:40the same end hair is associated with
- 00:12:42sexual par with passion the woman sex or
- 00:12:45passion needs to be minimized so that
- 00:12:48the spectator may feel that he has the
- 00:12:50monopoly of such passion there were
- 00:12:53paintings which depicted male lovers
- 00:12:55sees that exist but they were mostly
- 00:12:57private semi-pro no graphic pictures in
- 00:13:00most paintings which were painted to be
- 00:13:02seen rather than hidden the only rival
- 00:13:05to the male spectator is a cupid and how
- 00:13:09extraordinary it is that the pictorial
- 00:13:11symbol of passion was a small boy for a
- 00:13:15similar reason women in the European art
- 00:13:17of the oil painting are seldom shown
- 00:13:20dancing they have to be shown language
- 00:13:22exhibiting a minimum energy they are
- 00:13:26there to feed an appetite not to have
- 00:13:28any of their own the appetite was
- 00:13:32theoretically gargantuan
- 00:13:36the absurdity of this male flattery
- 00:13:39although it was not seen as absurd then
- 00:13:41reached its peak in the public academic
- 00:13:44art of the 19th century
- 00:13:46prime ministers discussed under
- 00:13:48paintings like this when one of them
- 00:13:50felt he had been outwitted he looked up
- 00:13:53for consolation the nude in European oil
- 00:13:58painting is usually presented as an
- 00:14:00ideal subject it is said to be an
- 00:14:03expression of the European humanists to
- 00:14:05it
- 00:14:06I don't want to reject entirely the
- 00:14:08truth of this but I've tried to add to
- 00:14:11it starting off from a different
- 00:14:12viewpoint dealer who believed in the
- 00:14:16ideal nude thought that this ideal could
- 00:14:20be constructed by taking the shoulders
- 00:14:22of one body the hands of another the
- 00:14:25breasts of another and so on was this
- 00:14:28humanist idealism or was it the result
- 00:14:32of an indifference to who any one person
- 00:14:34really was do these paintings celebrate
- 00:14:38as we're normally taught the women
- 00:14:41within them or the male wire is their
- 00:14:46sexuality within the frame or in front
- 00:14:50of it I showed the program as you have
- 00:14:54seen it up till now to five women it
- 00:14:57began to seem absurd that the only
- 00:14:58images you were seeing were of women
- 00:15:00silent mute so I showed it to them and
- 00:15:04asked them to comment to comment not so
- 00:15:06much on the program but rather on the
- 00:15:07questions raised by it above all on the
- 00:15:10question of how men see women or have
- 00:15:12seen them in the past and how this
- 00:15:14influences the way women see themselves
- 00:15:16today we have an image of course we all
- 00:15:19have an image of ourselves and it's a
- 00:15:21visual image but I wonder how much this
- 00:15:25sort of classical European painting has
- 00:15:29shaped that image in my own case I find
- 00:15:31it quite impossible when I look at the
- 00:15:33paintings that you show in your film I
- 00:15:35can't take them seriously I cannot
- 00:15:37identify with them because they are so
- 00:15:39immensely exaggerated always you know
- 00:15:41they fasten onto some secondary sexual
- 00:15:44characteristics
- 00:15:47Bres sort of great big bee sting bottoms
- 00:15:51you know and those huge things like that
- 00:15:53and they just aren't real whereas with
- 00:15:55photographs you you can you can feel
- 00:15:59that is potentially that's possibly me
- 00:16:00although it probably isn't but these
- 00:16:04these nearly all the paintings you have
- 00:16:06shown are what is called idealized and
- 00:16:11therefore they are to me very unreal in
- 00:16:15connection with with any deep down image
- 00:16:18that I might have of myself and in
- 00:16:20connection with any deep down pleasure
- 00:16:22that I might have in looking at another
- 00:16:25female body they don't give me that
- 00:16:27again pleasure at all can admire them as
- 00:16:30painting but they are they don't mean
- 00:16:33human beings to me the image that I
- 00:16:36compare myself with is the photograph
- 00:16:38because it's with photographs that I've
- 00:16:41been encouraged to think of myself in
- 00:16:43this way it is essentially advertising
- 00:16:45for me that's contributed to this and
- 00:16:47consequently I find it extremely
- 00:16:49interesting to go back and think of
- 00:16:51nudes in this way because I've never
- 00:16:53done sit but having seen the film I have
- 00:16:55no doubt that the same thing applies and
- 00:16:58do you find that the new it's in
- 00:17:01painting under the other in the same way
- 00:17:02yes well you can't get any information
- 00:17:06from it it's no guide towards
- 00:17:11information is lacking
- 00:17:13oh well activity you know dynamism
- 00:17:16anything it is how someone sees you and
- 00:17:19that's all it's something laid upon you
- 00:17:21I'm glad you showed them any picture
- 00:17:24because I always find is extremely
- 00:17:27shocking and because the men addressed
- 00:17:30and I love women are naked and this
- 00:17:32seems to me sum up the whole situation
- 00:17:33it's a humiliating position and these
- 00:17:36women are aware of being humiliated and
- 00:17:39I think this is part of the whole scheme
- 00:17:40of things I mean I think most people
- 00:17:42have had and some station in life it's
- 00:17:44all nightmares about running sort of
- 00:17:46speaks with nothing
- 00:17:47in everybody else's list and this seems
- 00:17:50to me one element in the pictures a very
- 00:17:53interesting thing you said in the film
- 00:17:54was about how nudity was really a kind
- 00:17:59of disguise it wasn't the real person
- 00:18:02themselves and free but it was just
- 00:18:05another garment they were wearing and
- 00:18:07worse than a garment in the sense
- 00:18:08because something that you can't take
- 00:18:10off this comes I think from nudity being
- 00:18:14combined with a pose and that's
- 00:18:16inevitable if you're going to have a
- 00:18:18painting of a model in a way I think
- 00:18:25that we're always dressing we're always
- 00:18:28dressing up for a part always putting on
- 00:18:32a uniform of one kind or another and I
- 00:18:34think women do this almost more than men
- 00:18:35men have only begun doing it fairly
- 00:18:37recently women are always dressing to
- 00:18:40show the kind of character that they
- 00:18:42want to represent the mother the working
- 00:18:45woman the pretty young chick and nudity
- 00:18:49is a uniform in a way for I'm ready now
- 00:18:54for sexual pleasure you see and so it
- 00:18:57doesn't you you can't come you can't
- 00:19:00identify being nude with being free I've
- 00:19:03only just recently read that book he's
- 00:19:0612 dull which describes some way in
- 00:19:09which a woman is reduced for the sexual
- 00:19:12pleasure of the man she's in love with
- 00:19:13to a complete object and what struck me
- 00:19:15in all that book as the most impressive
- 00:19:18image was the fact that she was told
- 00:19:21that she was never to touch her own
- 00:19:24breasts to entirely close her mouth or
- 00:19:26too close or to put her legs together
- 00:19:29and so the whole point about her stance
- 00:19:32all the time was it she was available
- 00:19:33and this the sense of being available
- 00:19:36the sense of waiting for other people is
- 00:19:39a very antithesis of action and it you
- 00:19:42know just like the whole the the Brook
- 00:19:45Street Bureau advertisement Tony hasn't
- 00:19:47rung you know he's three minutes late
- 00:19:48and ringing and you feel this whole
- 00:19:50situation the number women you talk to
- 00:19:52who say I stay in so many nights a week
- 00:19:54waiting for somebody to ring that the
- 00:19:56the concept of availability implies
- 00:19:59passivity
- 00:20:00because if you're simply waiting for
- 00:20:01somebody else to act then you contact
- 00:20:02yourself yes it's it's like um you will
- 00:20:06awake when a man taps you you know that
- 00:20:11but really it's an excuse to get
- 00:20:15yourself going I think I'm gonna - I
- 00:20:20know they're waiting too long yes yes
- 00:20:25could I say something there but
- 00:20:27narcissism I think that both men and
- 00:20:30women are narcissistic but in different
- 00:20:32senses and I think that one in sometimes
- 00:20:37I have the impression that men and women
- 00:20:39are tremendously narcissistic and cut
- 00:20:42off from each other by their images of
- 00:20:44themselves but that whereas a woman's
- 00:20:46image of herself is derived directly
- 00:20:50from other people the mirror you're
- 00:20:52talking about a man's image of himself
- 00:20:54is derived from the world that is it's
- 00:20:58the world that gives him back his image
- 00:21:00because he acts in it and you know women
- 00:21:04are drawn to him as a source a central
- 00:21:07activity and as a source of worth I mean
- 00:21:11since he is in the world the fact that
- 00:21:13he values her is important and so
- 00:21:17because they're sort of centers of
- 00:21:18narcissism are different and the woman's
- 00:21:22is essentially only related to the other
- 00:21:24person she's having much more passive
- 00:21:26position than years yes do you see do
- 00:21:32you see narcissism as essentially a and
- 00:21:35a negative or positive well I think
- 00:21:42that's very difficult to answer but in
- 00:21:44the sense that it is related to identity
- 00:21:48it's a positive phenomenon and it seems
- 00:21:51to me that what women envy and men a lot
- 00:21:53of the time is that they have a sense of
- 00:21:54their own identity that there is
- 00:21:56something in them which is important to
- 00:21:58them other than simply what other people
- 00:22:01think of them and I think that that
- 00:22:02thing is the product of their
- 00:22:05interaction with the world that is
- 00:22:07things and other people and it's sort of
- 00:22:09it's almost as if through this
- 00:22:11interaction they actually build up a
- 00:22:12store of worth a sense of themselves
- 00:22:18which which is a constant I mean it
- 00:22:20can't be lost but that because the woman
- 00:22:22doesn't go out and act she doesn't
- 00:22:24create the store she waits only for the
- 00:22:27present interaction with a man that and
- 00:22:30that can go that can just end at any
- 00:22:32moment pronounced way of stating a
- 00:22:51relationship but this other question
- 00:22:58which is contained within it as far as
- 00:23:02it doesn't idea is this sort of self
- 00:23:07delight of a person whether it's a man
- 00:23:10or woman in life in what they're doing
- 00:23:15in their relationships with men or women
- 00:23:19and it's a thing that matters
- 00:23:23tremendously and it's not only a kind of
- 00:23:27inner thing I quit you live but it's a
- 00:23:31very outer thing by which you gain
- 00:23:35relationships with your own context in
- 00:23:39the world that you can't gain any other
- 00:23:41way that it's when you have somehow been
- 00:23:46made some conscious of yourself that you
- 00:23:50easily naturally sort of compulsively go
- 00:23:54out to whatever is going on around you
- 00:23:57now we're not a child
- 00:23:59that tends northern with people to be
- 00:24:03other things doesn't it mountain streams
- 00:24:08wherever you go
- 00:24:11and then only
- 00:24:14as you make this kind of absolutely
- 00:24:21necessary contact with people but I do
- 00:24:26think that the sort of essence self
- 00:24:31denied as a kind of possible thing in
- 00:24:35the modern world and something that
- 00:24:37fewer women have the men and won't a
- 00:24:40master is the power the compulsion not
- 00:24:45the power the compulsion to make contact
- 00:24:50with the world as you are living in it
- 00:24:52when I say that I don't just mean the
- 00:24:54people next door are your friends I
- 00:24:56simply mean what is going on I'm not so
- 00:25:02sure about the delight I think it's a
- 00:25:04very double-edged thing I know as I
- 00:25:08suppose I've always known but I became
- 00:25:09aware of it then his film I have never
- 00:25:11consciously looked at myself in the
- 00:25:13mirror and seen myself as I am I always
- 00:25:16see the image that I want I know and my
- 00:25:19children notice it that if I make up my
- 00:25:21face I put on a certain expression if I
- 00:25:23from adolescence on if I've seen myself
- 00:25:26naked in the mirror I have not thought
- 00:25:28of myself naked I have thought of myself
- 00:25:29as a nude and I think this comes very
- 00:25:32largely from having being trailed around
- 00:25:34all the major art galleries in
- 00:25:35adolescence you know this is culture
- 00:25:37this is beauty the capital B and of
- 00:25:41course up to a point from advertising to
- 00:25:43but much more the painting thing that
- 00:25:46you use you think the female body is
- 00:25:50beautiful I am a beautiful object if not
- 00:25:52I have to do something about it and
- 00:25:55therefore the painful part of the
- 00:25:57narcissistic thing is I think the
- 00:25:59feeling of inadequacy now this business
- 00:26:03of always posing in a mirror I think one
- 00:26:06does absolutely automatically and the
- 00:26:08result is that if you actually catch
- 00:26:10yourself in a mirror by chance
- 00:26:13that's not deliberately because you're
- 00:26:15getting dressed or something I've had a
- 00:26:16bath but because there's one in the
- 00:26:18street we would catch yourself in a shop
- 00:26:21window it's a tremendous shock because
- 00:26:23you suddenly see yourself as you are
- 00:26:24which is windblown untidy badly
- 00:26:27just tired and so on you don't see the
- 00:26:30pose at all and I think this is what
- 00:26:32happens to women that they're always
- 00:26:34trying to measure up to this erotic
- 00:26:36image that is projected that there are
- 00:26:40some paintings and I think at this
- 00:26:42moment in particular of one painting
- 00:26:44well there's a woman who is wearing a
- 00:26:46garment she's not nude but it is a
- 00:26:48garment so loose so comfortable so easy
- 00:26:53and it's my idea very much of what a
- 00:27:00picture of a woman might be like it I
- 00:27:02think it's actually before your period
- 00:27:04almost it's so long ago I mean zips by
- 00:27:06Lorenzetti it comes in the good and bad
- 00:27:08government it's a fresco it's very very
- 00:27:11old you know and it is a picture of a
- 00:27:13woman who is supposed to represent peace
- 00:27:15it's quite extraordinary but she could
- 00:27:17be one of the liberators or trying to be
- 00:27:20liberated young women today she is a
- 00:27:23tease she is relaxed she is not playing
- 00:27:26any part at all she is able to combine
- 00:27:31pleasure with thoughts and with dreaming
- 00:27:35and she's she might spring into action
- 00:27:38at any moment
- 00:27:39and I think for me she has much much
- 00:27:43more to do with with with nakedness with
- 00:27:47oneself with the truth about oneself
- 00:27:50than any number of nudes as I've ever
- 00:27:51seen
- 00:27:55[Music]
- 00:28:03and the third part of ways of seeing is
- 00:28:06here at the same time tomorrow next
- 00:28:08tonight Andrew Graham Dixon is at the
- 00:28:10Tate Modern for an exhibition by max
- 00:28:12Beckman
- 00:28:14[Music]
- 00:28:26in ting we can discover some of the
- 00:28:29criteria and conventions by which women
- 00:28:32were judged we can see how women was
- 00:28:34seen what then is a nude
- 00:28:44in his book on the nude Kenneth Clark
- 00:28:47says that being naked is simply being
- 00:28:50without clothes the nude according to
- 00:28:53him is a form of art I would put it
- 00:28:58differently to be naked is to be oneself
- 00:29:02to be nude is to be seen naked by others
- 00:29:06and yet not recognized for oneself a
- 00:29:09nude has to be seen as an object in
- 00:29:13order to be a nude in the European oil
- 00:29:17painting nakedness is not taken for
- 00:29:19granted men dream of women women dream
- 00:29:26of themselves being dreamt of men look
- 00:29:30at women women watch themselves being
- 00:29:32looked at
- 00:29:38[Music]
- 00:30:06[Music]
- 00:30:08women constantly meet glances which act
- 00:30:11like mirrors reminding them of how they
- 00:30:13look or how they should know
- 00:30:45a woman is always a company to accept
- 00:30:48when quite alone perhaps even then by
- 00:30:51her own image of herself while she is
- 00:30:54walking across a room or weeping at the
- 00:30:56death of her father she cannot avoid
- 00:30:59envisaging herself walking or weeping
- 00:31:02from earliest childhood she is taught
- 00:31:04and persuaded to survey herself
- 00:31:06continually she has to survey everything
- 00:31:10she is and everything she does
- 00:31:12because how she appears to others and
- 00:31:14particularly how she appears to men is
- 00:31:16of crucial importance what is normally
- 00:31:19thought of as the success of her life
- 00:31:26[Music]
- 00:31:35a woman in the culture of privileged
- 00:31:43Europeans is first and foremost a sight
- 00:31:46to be looked at what kind of sight is
- 00:31:49revealed in the average European oil
- 00:31:52painting there were portraits of women
- 00:31:54as a reporter's of men but in one
- 00:31:56category of painting women were the
- 00:31:58principal ever occurring subject that
- 00:32:02category was the nude in the nudes of
- 00:32:05European paper behind every glance is a
- 00:32:08judgment sometimes the glance they meet
- 00:32:11is their own reflected back from a real
- 00:32:14now
- 00:32:26[Music]
- 00:32:37[Music]
- 00:32:54[Music]
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