This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text …
"This volume is dedicated to studying issues of visual representation in a postcolonial context. It explores the significance of book covers, forces of marketing, politics of identity, issues of representation, and the impact of globalisation on New India. It case studies contem…
This book examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women. The book's thematic chapters investigate Poussin's w…
This book examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women. The book's thematic chapters investigate Poussin's w…
Ranging from classical to contemporary eras, this art instruction manual presents a historical overview of the depiction of women in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography. The highly detailed study is generously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, line drawin…
"This magnificently illustrated art instruction manual ranges from classical to contemporary eras in its highly detailed historical overview of the depiction of women in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography. Black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and reproduction…
"This magnificently illustrated art instruction manual ranges from classical to contemporary eras in its highly detailed historical overview of the depiction of women in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography. Black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and reproduction…
Exploring the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers, 'The Subversive Stitch' explores how the separation of the craft of embroidery from other fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of w…
This book is a new version with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, …