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Violetta (above) confronts her mirror image, questioning what has more value in the fashion world, flesh or plastic? Newton often experimented with the roles of mannequins and living models, often pairing life like dummies and women together (as above) or posing mannequins in public spaces and models in interior settings to create subtle disorientation. He frequently places human models in stiff, awkward positions as though their bodies had limited range of motion like mannequins. Even in his recent work 'vogue September 2003' Newton has used the Actress Nicole Kidman in a questionable pose, drawing an uncomfortable parallel between mannequins, the female, actress, and doll, she at first glance looks to be void of genitalia, a pose that would be well suited as some kind of 'Super Barbie'

Many of Newton's works depict dolls and mannequins in erotic situations, just as in Sherman's work, they could be questioning a doll's (unadvertised) function as a child's tool to explore sexuality. They undoubtedly question the media's continued portrayal of women as a commodity, and the 'raunch culture' that Kliszynski highlights in his work, but could one question how small this division between exploring a child's sexuality and exploiting it is becoming ? These images of Barbie as seen so frequently in many of the artists work could be identified as resembling 'Sex dolls' rather than childrens toys, and as 'The goal of feminism,' said an early spokeswoman, 'was to change the nature of art itself, to transform culture in sweeping and permanent ways by introducing into it the heretofore suppressed perspective of women.

Newton's image of Nicole Kidman takes on a striking resemblance to that of the work of sculptor Allen Jones (1937-) His work is fused with Mannequins posing as humans depicting  forniphilia (sexual objectification is manifested in a submissive partner acting as a piece of furniture) The women 'mannequins' have well endowed voluptuous proportions and resemble a blow up doll rather than store mannequin, yet they are placed in the role of a 'domestic' object, they identify with the struggle women have defining themselves away from such stereotyping:

Jones' work has been frequently referred to as misogynistic. Yet his work is surely similar to that of Sherman and Newton in the way it shows the oppression of women, seeing them as objects.

For anyone to read the work in any other way is surely to take on a purely 'Literal' reading. Jones himself stated, 'I was reflecting on and commenting on exactly the same situation that was the source of the feminist movement. It was unfortunate for me that I produced the perfect image for them to show how women were being objectified.' If one, was to take this 'literal' reading and ask the question of why Jones hasn't made a male equivalent for example? Surely, that is the point, that there is none, as men are not ever viewed in this way by society. In addition, as for dolls, toys, men/boys are surrounded by toys that encourage building, logic and competition, yet girls are given toys that encourage nursing/nurturing, beauty, creativity related and emotion based. Toys have never been more polarized in relation to genders which will surely be one aspect all these works have drawn本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。