Exalted Beauties The Venus of Willendorf vs. the Barbie Doll Kristin Groth Chamberlain College of Nursing HUMN 303: Introduction to Humanities January‚ 2015 Exalted Beauties: Venus of Willendorf vs. the Barbie Doll The Venus of Willendorf is known for her voluptuous figure‚ and is often regarded as an icon of fertility‚ health‚ and abundance. Barbie is known for her blonde hair‚ big blue eyes‚ and her size zero figure‚ she is often regarded as an iconic representation of beauty (The icon
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"RAWR!" You hear as a giant three hundred foot Venus fly trap comes falling out of the sky. You’ve only heard legends of the Venus fly trap known as John. She goes around destroying entire planets which it why Mars‚ Jupiter‚ and Planet X is now just a figment of the imagination. As John goes rampaging through you start seeing the Nova Squadron forming a huge shield using the galactic rift fleet. Now let’s go back to the birthplace of John. John was a science experiment that came from the planet
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In The Myth of Mars and Venus‚ Deborah Cameron explores the claims about gender and language and its consequences in today’s society. Cameron titles her book a ‘myth’ due to two reasons. The first sense is the commonly known definition of a myth: “a widespread but false belief” regarding the notion that men and women have different ways in using language to communicate with each other (Cameron‚ 3). ‘Myth’ is also used in the sense that it is a story of the identity of an individual and what has shaped
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Separate standards Representations of Sarah Baartman marked a new tendency toward linking the savage to raw sexuality (Abrahams‚ 1998: 227). Baartman‚“The Hottentot Venus” was representative of primitive sexuality and ugliness. She became an icon of the commodification of the female black body and the exploitation of female black sexuality (Ruiz‚ 2013: 137). Fascination with Baartman stemmed from the stark difference of her body from the standard body shape that was expectant of woman in Britain
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Vatican as well as one of the most rich and powerful Florentines of his time‚ Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici‚ Botticelli was hugely popular in his own day. His most magnificent work‚ the Primavera‚ as well as The Birth of Venus‚ Camilla and the Centaur‚ and Mars and Venus contain entirely mythological figures whose significances have been debated by various art historians for centuries. Born as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni (Filpeppi was his real last name‚ but it is said to only really have
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Review #1 Tuesday Feb. 9‚ 2010 3:30-4:45 Crais Scully‚ Clifton and Pamela. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. New Jersey: Princeton University Press‚ 2010. Crais and Scully‚ have meticulously and skillfully pieced together the life and times of Sara or Sartjee Baartman. The Authors have given us insight as to whom Sara Baartman the Gonaqua woman was opposed to the Hottentot Venus that she was worldly famous for. For centuries Sara Baartman has embodied westerner’s ideologies of the primitive
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The Birth of Venus is a masterpiece created by Sandro Botticelli in the year 1482‚ this masterpiece was created during the renaissance era. The Birth of Venus depicts the Greek goddess Aphrodite which later on was adapted by the Roman in their culture as Venus. The Birth of Venus was commissioned by the Medici Family which was a very influential family during the Renaissance. Differently‚ from artwork from previous eras Botticelli did not create a piece of art that represented a Christian legend
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measures 172.5 x 278.5cm and is located in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence .The Birth of Venus belongs to the renaissance period and is not a representation of a Christian legend but an interpretation of a classical Myth. This painting is one of a series which Botticelli was inspired to paint after the written descriptions by the 2nd century historian Lucian. It depicts the classical goddess Venus emerging from the water on a shell ‚ she is being blown towards shore by the Zephyrs (symbols of
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Sandro Botticelli‚ Birth of Venus. The Birth of Venus painted by Sandro Botticelli from 1484-1486‚ depicts the birth of Venus into the world. The painting shows Venus the goddess of love and beauty coming out of the sea as if she was coming into the human world as a beautiful woman. She is nude in the painting covering one of her breasts with her right hand‚ her left hand holding her long blonde hair‚ which covers her pubic region. The nudity of Venus in this painting shows not the humility of
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scene in Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks is scene 22. In this scene Saartjie Baartman‚ also known as the Venus Hottentot‚ requests new demands to her Mother-Showman. So far up until this point the Venus Hottentot has been a hit everywhere she goes. People that come to the Mother-Showman’s show often come just to see her and this is when Venus finally realizes this. Venus’s demands are all reasonable and because she is the Mother-Showman’s main source of income she should receive them‚ but Venus is not an
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