Josep Renau. Representing women in The American Way of Life. A proposal for the inclusion of the gender perspective in classroom intervention

Abstract

From the critical paradigm of the Social Sciences, I propose a reflection on the way in which women are represented in artistic imaginaries. I promote a critical review through analysis and dialogue, on the models of representation. Josep Renau’s photomontages are still a laboratory for pedagogically addressing the vindication of a naturalistic against a capitalist model in which not even the author himself, a left-wing intellectual, is saved from the patriarchal optics at the time of selecting feminine attributes in his photomontages. This task of semiotic unveiling aims at the observation and production in the classroom of projections present in advertising and networks, so as to consider the influential images and alternative constructions of female identities.