MoMA's collections recurrent images of sexualized female Essay

MOMA'S COLLECTIONS RECURRENT IMAGES OF SEXUALIZED FEMALE BODIES ACTIVELY MASCULINIZE THE MUSEUM AS A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
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Duncan (1989) focuses on the topic "The MoMA's Hot Mamas" focuses on the use of public spaces like The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to showcase whom they are used as tools to perpetuate a specific ideology. In the current context, the author focuses on the issue of superiority between make and female identity. The complex relationships between the two genders have resulted in how gender is manifested in museums. She seeks to show how women are the dominant images that appear in modern art, and most of them are presented as female bodies without an identity. The author’s thesis is that MoMA's collections recurrent images of sexualized female bodies actively masculinize the museum.[Duncan, Carol. "The MoMA's Hot Mamas." Art Journal 48, no. 2 (1989): 171-78. Accessed January 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/776968.]
Duncan can prove this by revealing that the images presented about women are that they are “tarts, prostitutes, artist’s mod...