Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe
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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe
Gender, Agency, Identity
Pearson, Andrea
Taylor & Francis Ltd
04/2008
244
Dura
Inglês
9780754656661
15 a 20 dias
Considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. This book dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding.
Contents: Introduction: portraiture's selves, Andrea Pearson; Gender and the configuration of early Netherlandish devotional skill, Bret Rothstein; Productions of meaning in portraits of Margaret of York, Andrea Pearson; The posthumous image of Mary of Burgundy, Ann M. Roberts; Effaced: falling widows, Allison Levy; Daddy's little girl: patrilineal anxiety in 2 portraits of a Renaissance daughter, Katherine A. McIver; Engaging negation in Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Christina of Denmark Duchess of Milan, Christiane Hertel; All the queen's women: female double portraits at the Caroline court, Jennifer L. Hallam; Troubling identities and the agreeable game of art: from Madame de Pompadour's theatrical 'breeches' of decorum to Drouais' portrait of Madame Du Barry en homme, Melissa Lee Hyde; Sculpting her image: Sarah Siddons and the art of self-fashioning, Heather McPherson; Bibliography; Index.
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Considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. This book dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding.
Contents: Introduction: portraiture's selves, Andrea Pearson; Gender and the configuration of early Netherlandish devotional skill, Bret Rothstein; Productions of meaning in portraits of Margaret of York, Andrea Pearson; The posthumous image of Mary of Burgundy, Ann M. Roberts; Effaced: falling widows, Allison Levy; Daddy's little girl: patrilineal anxiety in 2 portraits of a Renaissance daughter, Katherine A. McIver; Engaging negation in Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Christina of Denmark Duchess of Milan, Christiane Hertel; All the queen's women: female double portraits at the Caroline court, Jennifer L. Hallam; Troubling identities and the agreeable game of art: from Madame de Pompadour's theatrical 'breeches' of decorum to Drouais' portrait of Madame Du Barry en homme, Melissa Lee Hyde; Sculpting her image: Sarah Siddons and the art of self-fashioning, Heather McPherson; Bibliography; Index.
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