Intimate Distance Women, Artists and the Body

Name: Intimate Distance Women, Artists and the Body
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ISBN: 9780415110846

ISBN-10: 041511084X

ISBN-13: 9780415110846

Edition: 1996

Authors: Rosemary Betterton

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In a series of original readings of the work of artists from Kathe Kollwitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Helen Cahdwick and Laura Godfrey Issacs, Rosemary Betterton explores how women artists have addressed the changing relationship between women, the body and its representation in art. In detailed critical essays that range from the analysis of maternal imagery in the work of German artists at the turn of the century, to the unrepresented body in contemporary abstract painting. Betterton argues that women's art practices offer ways of engaging with our fascinations and fears of the female body. Reflecting the shift within feminist art over the last decade,An Intimate Distancesets the…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/19/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Rosemary Betterton is Reader in Women's Studies, Lancaster University.



List of Plates


Acknowledgements


Introduction



An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body



Mother Figures: The Material Nude in the Work of Kathe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker



'A Perfect Woman': The Political Body of Suffrage



Bodies in the Work: The Aesthetics and Politics of Women's Non-Representational Painting



Life and A.R.T.: Metaphors of Motherhood and Assisted Reproductive Technologies



Body Horror? Food (and Sex and Death) in Women's Art



Identities, Memories, Desires: The Body in History


Notes


Works Cited


Name Index


Subject Index