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Auth: San Francisco State University, Revised & updated.
Art in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Domestic genres and women painters in Northern Europe - New idealogy of femininity in France and England - Sex, class and power in Victorian England - Moral reform and American Art in the nineteenth century - Woman's sphere and the New Ar…
This acclaimed study challenges assumptions in seeing 'great' women artists, like Artemisia Gentileschi, as exceptions who 'transcended' their sex in producing major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have…
Auth: San Francisco State University, Revised & updated.
Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature.
In the years around 1900, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential were first formulated during this period, a…
In the years around 1900, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential were first formulated during this period, a…