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Curatorial Fellowship exhibition: What's So Funny: How Humor Makes Us Think, March 21 - April 28, 2019
Fawcett’s mixed-media drawing, created in the mid-20th century, addresses voyeurism and women’s sexuality with disturbing levity. Women are considered entertainment; stripped of their agency, they are transformed into objects for a viewer’s pleasure, as Mickey Mouse points out to Mr. Disney. This idea is emphasized by placing the nude figures within window frames, as if displaying them for show. The blatant objectification reminds us of our society’s problematic tolerance — and even expectation — of the sex-obsessed teenage (boy’s) mind and the normalization of such portrayals. With this drawing, we ask: Should we be laughing? Or, is some humor a cover for conversations our society would rather not have? - Kayla Peterson (M.A. Art History, 2020) and Siyu Shen (M.A. Art History, 2020)
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women; nudes; cartoons; humor; architecture; figures Link to share this object record:
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