Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
| Author | : Geraldine A. Johnson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521562768 |
Interdisciplinary approach to the history of women and Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
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Picturing Political Power
| Author | : Allison K. Lange |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2021-09-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226815846 |
"For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward"--
Picturing Women's Health
| Author | : Ji Won Chung |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317319273 |
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.
Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
| Author | : Christa Grössinger |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780719041099 |
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.
Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age
| Author | : Muizelaar Klaske |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300098174 |
Taking as their premiss the subjective experience of art, the authors look at how paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer & other masters were displayed & comprehended in the 17th century.
Text and Image in Women's Life Writing
| Author | : Valérie Baisnée-Keay |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2022-01-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030848752 |
This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.
Superfluous Women
| Author | : Jessica Zychowicz |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2020-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1487513755 |
Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.
Picturing Mary
| Author | : Timothy Verdon |
| Publisher | : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781857598957 |
Iconic and devotional, but also fraught with social and political significance, the image of the Virgin Mary has shaped Western art since the sixth century. Depictions of the Virgin Mary in art through the ages are examined from a unique combination of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and contemporary art-historical perspectives. The thought-provoking texts examine Mary's image as an enthroned queen, a tender young mother and a pious woman, demonstrating how her personification of womanhood has resonated throughout history to the present day. AUTHOR: Timothy Verdon is director of Museo dell Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. Melissa R. Katz is Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow in Art History, Wesleyan University. Amy Remensnyder is associate professor, Department of History at Brown University. Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London. Kathryn Wat is Chief Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts. SELLING POINTS: * Major new book exploring how the Virgin Mary has been depicted throughout history in different cultures * Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, December 5, 2014 - April 12, 2015 100 colour illustrations
The Mirror and the Palette
| Author | : Jennifer Higgie |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2021-10-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1643138049 |
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
Picturing the Modern Amazon
| Author | : New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) |
| Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Pictured in two centuries of images, the hypermuscular and physically strong woman is studied here for the first time as a major player in popular culture and contemporary art. Using the bodybuilder as prototype, a rich variety of authors engage with her particular physicality, and how it resonates with social issues such as female pleasure and gender stereotypes. From the sublime to the gritty, this volume presents modern amazons as a culture with a history, a dazzling and transgressive current phenomenon, and avatars of the future. Packed with illustrations, "Picturing the Modern Amazon" investigates the representation of hypermuscular women in a range of visual sources. Historical images and archival materials dating from the late 1700s through the present century illustrate older notions of female strength, providing a solid base of comparison for the modern materials. Contemporary art explores a diversity of issues surrounding the physically strong woman; artists represented include Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Nicole Eisenman, Annie Leibovitz, Alison Saar, Andre Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Nancy Spero. Comic artists address the amazon through comic strips, comic books, and unique art works that focus on muscular female characters and superheros; artists include Robert Crumb, Diane DiMassa, Roberta Gregory, John Howard, and Turtel Onli. Photographs of some of today's top bodybuilding competitors capture the stunning strength and definition of the hypermuscular woman. Co-edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein, the volume's contributors are Michael Cunningham, Nathalie Gassel, Leslie Heywood, Irving Lavin, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Al Thomas, Jan Todd, Steve Wennerstrom, and Carla Williams. Interviews with noted bodybuilders-both the sport's pioneers and today's top competitors-provide a personal perspective.
