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Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawardenby Carol Mavor
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Luxuriating in the photographs' interpretive possibilities, Mavor makes illuminating connections between Hawarden and other artists and writers, including Vermeer, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and twentieth-century photographers Sally Mann and Francesca Woodman. Weaving psychoanalytic theory and other photographic analyses into her work, Mavor contemplates the experience of the photograph and considers the relationship of Hawarden's works to the concept of the female fetish, to voyeurism, mirrors and lenses, and twins and doubling. Under the spell of Roland Barthes, Mavor's voice unveils the peculiarities of the erotic in Lady Hawarden's images through a writerly approach that remembers and rewrites adolescence as sustained desire. In turn autobiographical, theoretical, historical, and analytical, Mavor's study caresses these mysteriously ripped and scissored images into fables of sapphic love and the real magic of photography. Synopsis:"""Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure--indeed, unforgettable."--Richard Howard" " "The author's perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does."--Joseph Litvak, author of "Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel" Synopsis:The pohotographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-209) and index. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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