NOCHLIN LINDA

(P/B) REPRESENTING WOMEN
Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one of its most common subjects. Representing Women brings together Linda Nochlin's most important writings on the subject, as she considers work by Miller, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among many others. In her riveting, partly autobiographical, extended introduction, Nochlin documents her own pioneering approach to art history; throughout the seven essays in this boo...
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(P/B) WOMEN, ART AND POWER
Women, Art, and Power - seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE BODY IN PIECES
By the end of the eighteenth century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in their relationship to the heroic past, from antiquity on, which constituted the European intellectual tradition. Artists felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of past heroic accomplishment, its domineering influence, even of their own past accomplishment, and this was soon reflected in artistic representation. The partial image, the ‘crop’, fragmentation, the ruin and mutilation - all expressed nostalgia and grief for the loss ...
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(P/B) COURBET

(H/B) BATHERS, BODIES, BEAUTY
To the eye of some viewers, Renoir's Great Bathers are the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, they embody a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Yet others find in the bathers a feminine fantasy of bodily liberation. The points of view are many, various, occasionally startling - and through them, Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book - about art, the body, beauty, and ways of viewing - confronts the issues posed in representations ...
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(P/B) THE POLITICS OF VISION

(P/B) WOMEN, ART, AND POWER AND OTHER ESSAYS

(P/B) REPRESENTING WOMEN