Dealing with Degas Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision

Name: Dealing with Degas Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision
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ISBN: 9780044407812

ISBN-10: 0044407815

ISBN-13: 9780044407812

Edition: 1992

Authors: Richard Kendall, Griselda Pollock

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Leading scholars offer new readings of Degas' representations of the family, prostitution, city life and leisure in which looking at women is shown to be a complex and ambiguous process. One major topic of the book is the encounter between feminism and art history. Having put images of women' on the agenda of cultural analysis, feminist interventions in the theory and analysis of representation have created a diverse and intricate field of interpretation which now supersedes that formulation. These essays challenge art history to confront issues of spectatorship, the interface of class and gender, identification and the politics of vision. This illustrated collection is thus a major…

Book details

Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Pandora Press
Publication date: 1/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English