Depictions of nudity include visual representations of nudity throughout history, in disciplines including the arts and sciences. Nudity is restricted in most societies , but some depictions of nudity may serve a recognized social function. Clothing also serves as a significant part of interpersonal communication , and a lack of clothing in public is expected to have a social context. In Western societies, the three contexts that are easily recognized by a majority of individuals are art , pornography , and information or science. Any image not easily fitting into one of these categories may be misinterpreted, leading to disputes. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory. Both male and female nude depictions were common in antiquity, especially in ancient Greece.
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Sure, these words may at times have been arbitrarily attached to other, more mountainy objects, but here, in this poem, they find their true home. I met my future husband at 19, and I wrote this poem in a notebook for him. By then it had already been echoing around inside me for years, telling me the truth about love. Love is monomaniacal, love is appalling, love is secret, love is childish, love rips you from the bosom of your family, love is woozy, love is ravishing, love is scrumdiddlyumptious. I should probably feel embarrassed at telling Ireland that this is my favourite love poem, but am unabashed. My father died, my brother too, They passed like fleeting dreams, I stood where Popocatapetl In the sunlight gleams. I walked in a great golden dream To and fro from school — Shining Popocatapetl The dusty streets did rule. I gazed entranced upon his face Fairer than any flower— O shining Popocatapetl It was thy magic hour:. The houses, people, traffic seemed Thin fading dreams by day; Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, They had stolen my soul away!
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In feminist theory , the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts [1] and in literature , [2] from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer. The film critic Laura Mulvey coined the term male gaze , which is conceptually contrasted with and opposed by the female gaze. The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre introduced the concept of le regard , the gaze , in Being and Nothingness , wherein the act of gazing at another human being creates a subjective power difference, which is felt by the gazer and by the gazed, because the person being gazed at is perceived as an object, not as a human being. In a narrative film, the visual perspective of the male gaze is the sight-line of the camera as the spectator's perspective — that of a heterosexual man whose sight lingers upon the features of a woman's body. Such visualizations establish the roles of dominant-male and dominated-female, by representing the female as a passive object for the male gaze of the active viewer. The social pairing of the passive-object woman and the active-viewer man is a functional basis of patriarchy, i. As an ideological basis of patriarchy, socio-political inequality is realised as a value system , by which male-created institutions e.
See Davina's gorgeous version here: www. See TC's hot shot here: www. Katy B - Honey. The connection that should have been an act of love was used to violate her instead. His eyes narrowed as she made a mad scramble for the docks. He found his footing then advanced on her slowly, as she whined and looked pathetic in his eyes. Reminding him why, despite his obvious feelings for her, he never considered her more than just a plaything.
