A review by triz193
Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni
4.0
First of all, this is real and necessary and beautiful so f*ing hilarious :). And I have to own it
This book found a very special way to resonate with me... As someone who loves art, as a woman, as a feminist who couldn't possibly get why this book was funny ;D.
The world of gender equality has ways to go still, but everything helps. This book helps.
I did however find a small issue, one that exists in the art world for quite sometime. 99% of the artists who painted the works displayed here were men. I attended a art exhibt in São Paulo last year where they worked to portray works of female paintors through time, and one of the things they commented on was the lack of difficulty other museums made to lend the pieces, like they mattered less somehow... There's that case of a revered european paintor, whose works lost recognition when, centuries later it was revealed that she was actually female. I can't possibly imagine that the painting itself changed, that it stopped being objectively good... I digress... What I mean is, this could have been a platform where works women were also showed. And it would have been awesome.
However, we cannot as women say that there is a wrong way to feminism, that can only make suffer the movement. That is to say, yes, this work would have been better if it had been also painted by women, when talking about women, but this is also a beautiful endeavor that is talking about our issues already, and it deserves it's credit for that.
I really loved the iniciatiative and I hope more people are as inspired as I am,
This book found a very special way to resonate with me... As someone who loves art, as a woman, as a feminist who couldn't possibly get why this book was funny ;D.
The world of gender equality has ways to go still, but everything helps. This book helps.
I did however find a small issue, one that exists in the art world for quite sometime. 99% of the artists who painted the works displayed here were men. I attended a art exhibt in São Paulo last year where they worked to portray works of female paintors through time, and one of the things they commented on was the lack of difficulty other museums made to lend the pieces, like they mattered less somehow... There's that case of a revered european paintor, whose works lost recognition when, centuries later it was revealed that she was actually female. I can't possibly imagine that the painting itself changed, that it stopped being objectively good... I digress... What I mean is, this could have been a platform where works women were also showed. And it would have been awesome.
However, we cannot as women say that there is a wrong way to feminism, that can only make suffer the movement. That is to say, yes, this work would have been better if it had been also painted by women, when talking about women, but this is also a beautiful endeavor that is talking about our issues already, and it deserves it's credit for that.
I really loved the iniciatiative and I hope more people are as inspired as I am,