"if "seeing through" is the etymological root of perspective then seeing back through implies a mostmodern turn on that perspectivalism, a doubling back over uniocular vision, so see, " 126
"redressing a space structured to render being seen and being blind identical, to render bearing vision and being dislocated (invisible to the seen) synonymous" 126
"In making her split explicit for purposes of explication, the explicit body performer invokes her historic delimination at the same time that she attempts to redress it as "seer", showing the show. 126/7
"split subjectivity is in infinite and insatiate and tangles in its own thorny paradoxes" - 127
"i dont take the advice of men who only talk to themselves"
"the body marked female has signified the feminized realm of representation, and the obsessive representation of woman in terms of desirability has served to inscribe the agency of the representer as masculine" - 51
women are not considered "seers" and are conditioned not to see. Giving them that right would allow them agency to create (schneider,
"when the familiar is made strange, when the norm is recognised as queer" (schneider, year, p.45)
Carolee Schneeman states her art is made via her "creative female will" as "she wanted her body to remain erotic, sexual, both "desired and desiring" ' (schneider, year, p.37).
"the nude as the artists, not just as the artist's (active) subject" (schneider, year, p.36)
"men can use beautiful, sexy women as neutral objects or surfaces, but when women use their own faces and bodies, they are immediately accused of narcissism" (lippard in schneider, year, p.35)
A lot of really interesting quotes regarding the gaze and the concept of being both a subject and an object.
The themes of man as seer and woman as seen is common throughout theories such as this, John Berger, Mulvey and Coward as in this dynamic, man is offered power and women are not - this suggests that by reversing the roles the gaze can be subverted.
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