Representing women

Representing women

by Nochlin, Linda

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"Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women haunt nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western painting. This book brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on the subject as she considers works by Millet, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among others." "In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history which rejects methodological presuppositions and for art…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Representing women / Linda Nochlin.

Summary

"Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women haunt nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western painting. This book brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on the subject as she considers works by Millet, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among others." "In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history which rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians who investigate the work before their eyes while focussing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Thames and Hudson
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

  • Description:272 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0500019045, 9780500019047, 0500280983, 9780500280980
  • oclc:ocm42309871
  • LC Classification:ND1460.W65
  • Dewey Decimal:757.4

Table of Contents

Memoirs of an Ad Hoc art historian -- The myth of the woman warrior -- Géricault : the absence of women -- The image of the working woman -- Courbet's real allegory : rereading The painter's studio -- A house is not a home : Degas and the subversion of the family -- Mary Cassatt's modernity -- Body politics : Seurat's Poseuses.

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Subjects

Femmes dans l'art Painting, Modern Painting, Modern -- 19th century Painting, Modern -- 20th century Peinture -- 19e siècle Peinture -- 20e siècle Schilderkunst visualisatie Vrouwen Women in art

Writers

Nochlin, Linda

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