Domestic Violence for Beginners Print

This Freudian collage interrogates the artist's subconscious world in a sophisticated way. Despite its provocative, ironic title, this artwork does not glorify domestic violence but rather exposes its atrocities. This collage includes numerous enigmatic images, including homoerotic examination of the male nude, heteronormative sexy women's legs in tights and, particularly, uncanny, undercurrent fantasies, angst, passions and uncertainties. This artwork has been created by Dr. Gilad Padva, one of the prominent contemporary scholars in cinema studies, popular culture, men's studies and queer theory. In addition to his revealing, timely art, Dr. Padva is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014) and Straight Skin, Gay Masks, and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2014), Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2017), and Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (Routledge, 2020). Gilad Padva genuinely exposes his most intimate feelings in this remarkable artwork!