The Artist and Androgyny: A Study of Gender Identity in Visual Artists

Harris, Catherine T.; Perricone, Philip J.; Smith, Margaret

doi:10.2190/9p69-xcur-c3na-2dck

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“…As all the paintings were executed by women, had such a female aesthetic existed, the general mean score should have been much higher, skewed to the "femiaine" side of the index. The findings of this study seem to concur with the conclusions of Harris, Smith and Perricone (1988) that in their creative work artists are androgynous instead of being stereotypically "male-or "female." This also agrees with Birg and Peterson (1985):…”

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Gender and Evaluation in Fine Art

Kamer¹

1991

Social Thought and Research

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They show their evaluation of her through their own rites and meetings" (p. n). .This differs from Schur's notion of the source of the structural ambivalence present within society. While Schur implies that the devaluation of women propagates from and is supported by the behavior and perception of men, the literature cited indicates that female gang members are influenced more by the constraints of their female peers than by the perceptions of male gang members. Contrary to the literature, one could argue that because female gangs are most often auxiliary components to male gangs, female gang members are more dependant upon their male counterparts to define gender-related norms than are females in the society at large, where independent female associations are more likely to occur. Nevertheless, what seems necessary is to approach female gang delinquency and the normative structure of the gang as it relates to both male and female peer influences, recognizing that both are important determinants of delinquent behavior. This paper has been an attempt to begin such a process.

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Gender and Evaluation in Fine Art

Kamer¹

1991

Social Thought and Research

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“…Possibly related to this hypothesized greater psychological conflict, there is support for a relationship between creativity and androgeny. Male and female visual artists were found to possess androgenous gender identities (Harris et al, 1988), and creative architects were found to score higher than non-creatives on a measure of androgeny (MacKinnon, 1962), although Bem (1974) failed to find such a relation for creative women.…”

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The Significance of Transpersonal Experiences, Emotional Conflict, and Cognitive Abilities in Creativity

Ayers

Beaton

Hunt

1999

Empirical Studies of the Arts

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Nineteen visual artists and eighteen actors were compared to twenty-one imaginative controls, matched for high levels of imaginative absorption, all subjects female. Creatives had mystical experiences significantly more frequently than controls. In particular, the visual artists reported having had significantly more current, positive altered states of consciousness (lucid and archetypal-mythological dreaming, out of body experiences, and waking mystical experiences). These findings, taken with the fact that the creatives did not show a significantly greater tendency toward psychopathology as indexed by the multiple measures of trauma and emotional conflict, suggest that contrary to the stereotype, creatives may not be driven by conflict so much as by intense and constructive states of consciousness. Most previous studies of productive creatives have used lower absorption controls, making it more difficult to locate specific factors that make imaginative subjects into productive artists and actors.

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Artists and Scientists: An Analysis of Marital Status and Stability

Earle

Harris

Pearson

et al. 1991

Empirical Studies of the Arts

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The authors hypothesize higher degrees of role ambivalence for female artists and scientists than for male artists, and especially male scientists. Likewise, they predict that female professionals in this sample are less likely to marry or to have stable marriages than male professionals. However, contrary to these predictions, male artists are more similar to female professionals than to male scientists, and female scientists were not characterized by the highest divorce rates. In fact, female scientists were less likely to be divorced or separated than male artists. In short, male artists represent the greatest departure from the patterns observed by other researchers. The analysis concludes with a comprehensive review of factors which may be useful in explaining the striking differences between male scientists and male artists with respect to marital status and stability.

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The Artist and Androgyny: A Study of Gender Identity in Visual Artists

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Gender and Evaluation in Fine Art

Gender and Evaluation in Fine Art

The Significance of Transpersonal Experiences, Emotional Conflict, and Cognitive Abilities in Creativity

Artists and Scientists: An Analysis of Marital Status and Stability

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