Representaciones de la violencia patriarcal en las artes: algunas reflexiones desde la antropología feminista

Abstract

In this article, I address some approaches to exploring the ways in which men express their place and role in the activities, tasks, ways of producing the world, its wealth, its well-being, and its domination, through the artistic works they create, on the one hand, with the violent forms mandated by patriarchal society and, on the other, in accordance with the criteria and norms of the dominant artistic canon. I approach this methodologically from a feminist anthropological perspective, through which I propose to reveal the relationship between patriarchal violence and the dominant artistic canon, as conceptions and practices whose representations visualize the supremacist nature with which male artists recreate the epic feats of other men. This form of production of their works is what is recognized, within the androcentric bias, as "art history." While I refer to several artistic disciplines, I focus on painting. The objective is to contribute to a critical, analytical, and comprehensive understanding of how men, through the arts, constitute themselves, through the actions of their forms and conditions of life, as gendered subjects based on patriarchal and masculine principles.