Women in the picture : what culture does with female bodies
Record details
- ISBN: 0393542084
- ISBN: 9780393542080
- ISBN: 9780393542080 : PAP
- ISBN: 0393542084 : PAP
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Physical Description:
pages cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary, etc.: | "DescriptionProduct Details Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art-Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna-and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs, ads, and across social media. By society empowering men to represent women, women imbibe a distorted vision of themselves and their bodies, coming up against notions of impossible beauty, idealized passivity and violence, and horrifying Medusas. In this impassioned work, art historian Catherine McCormack evaluates the production and display of portrayals of women, exposing the underlying meanings, whether overt or symbolic. She counters them by turning to women artists like Berthe Morisot, Beyoncé, Suzanne Lacy, and Faith Ringgold. These women have been overturning confining depictions of identity, sexuality, race, and power to explore the breadth and multiplicity of women's visions of their own lives"-- |
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Subject: | Art and society Man-woman relationships Sex role in art Women in art |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Tolland Public Library | 704.9 McC (Text) | 34051153290237 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |