The Presentation of Gender in Diane Arbus´s Work in the by Mirja D. Dauphin

By Mirja D. Dauphin

Seminar paper from the yr 2006 within the topic American experiences - Literature, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander college Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Amerikanistik), direction: playstation : chilly struggle tradition, language: English, summary: In many of the instances of critics discussing Diane Arbus paintings it really is in a psychoanalytical context. Taking her photos of dwarfs, giants or actors of freak exhibits they relate them to Diane Arbus´s personal emotions of depression, alienation and melancholy which she expressed in her photographs. “In this view she exists in a psychoanalytic twilight global, out of time, within which her photographs hold a cost of ache that's either hugely subjective and transhistorical.” (Budick 123) Her images of guys, ladies and transvestite express us a unique means of seeing Arbus´s paintings and makes it essential to see the images in a social and historic context.

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