- Essentialism: we have a biological make up that makes us who we are.
- This brings with it a lot of stereotypes
- Post-modern theorists disagree with this
Phrenology: the idea that there is an ideal make-up - a picture of good health.
Physiognomy: you can tell a persons intelligence by the angle their face is from their brow to their chin.
- Pre modern- born into identity and role
- Modern identity- you can choose your own identity
- Post Modern - you can construct your own identity
- Pre Modern: farm worker, soldier, housewife, factory worker
- Modern: the flaneur, distinction, fashionable,
- Post modern identity
- identity is defined by what we interact with
- Possible discourses: age, class, gender, education, income.
Worktown project: upperclass documenting the working class and poor:
Martin Parr: real pictures of common life, insight into their life and identity, a social commentary on class:
Anglo/ scottish relationship: identity in contrast to national relations.
Expressing identity through art:
Race and nationality as identity:
The introduction of androgyny:
Exploitation of women, female artists commenting on their own sexuality and the fact that they are female artists.
Feminism as a response to male oppression and the male gaze.
- You put on a different identity depending on who you are interacting with:
Barbara Kruger:
Creating an identity for yourself that can be nothing like you actually are:
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