| Description |
294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Divided selves -- Mothers -- Degas's nudes -- Gissing's even-handed oddness -- Henry James and the battle of the sexes -- Hitchcock's couples -- Randall Jarrell's sinister beings -- Beaton's ladies -- The disembodied body of Marilyn Monroe -- Stanwyck -- Closing the circle |
| Summary |
Wendy Lesser counters the reigning belief that male artists inevitably misrepresent women. She builds this case through inquiry into many unexpected and delightfully germane subjects - Marilyn Monroe's walk, for instance, or the dwarf manicurist Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, or the shoulder blades of Degas's bathers. Placing such particulars within the framework of Plato's myth of the divided beings and psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, Lesser sets before us an art that responds to and even attempts to overcome division |
| Analysis |
Arts Special subjects Women History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [271]-277 |
| Subject |
Artists -- Relations with women.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Feminism and the arts.
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Women in art.
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Women in literature.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women -- Public opinion.
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| LC no. |
90037165 |
| ISBN |
0674392108 (alk. paper) |
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