Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
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Sell my copyAuthor: Catherine McCormack
Title: Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 2021-11-16
Details: Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster-women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art-think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais-and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women's identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways. 20 illustrations
EAN: 9780393542080
Package Dimensions: Height: 8.3 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.5 Pounds, Width: 0.7 Inches
Languages: en
