Dzięki bogu jestem kobietą! Beaty Ewy Białeckiej genderowe dialogi z ikonografią chrześcijańską

• Authors: Marta Smolińska

Title variants

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Thank God I’m a woman! Beata Ewa Białecka and her gender dialogs with Christian iconography

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to analyze the image of a woman in the paintings by Beata Ewa Białecka. The image in question emerges in the manner of a constant dialog with both the traditional Christian iconography, stereotypically decreeing that Eve is to be the symbol of sin, as well as the iconosphere of the popular culture or the world of advertising. On the works, methods adapted from gender studies, post-feminism and the contemporary visual culture are “employed” in the background, being directed towards the investigation of sexual roles and their de(con)struction. As a post-feminist artist, Białecka no longer has the need for focusing on the fight for basic rights, as was the case with the so-called first-wave feminism, instead, she concentrates on individual choices, the living conditions in the consumptionist culture, as well as on redefining the status of a woman, functioning within the traditional social roles. On this painter’s canvas, Christian iconography undergoes disassembling and feminization, which is reflected not only in the female representations of the Good Shepherd or Saint Frances, but most prominently in the subversive play with the traditionally-defined masculinity and femininity, or further, in the clear empowerment of the woman. (tłum. na ang. Maciej Pokornowski)

Keywords

EN

Beata Ewa Białecka; painting; post-feminism; dialog with Christian iconography redefinition of sex roles; Беата Эва Биалэцка; живопись; постфеминизм; диалог с христианской иконографией; переосмысление половых ролей

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2: Postkolonializm — tożsamość — gender. Europa Środkowa, Wschodnia i Południowo-Wschodnia
• Pages: 305 - 314

Contributors

author

Marta Smolińska

• Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu (Poznań, Polska)