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More copies of this ISBNThe Expanding Discourse: Feminism & Art Historyby Mary D. Garrard
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship. Synopsis:"A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the pre" About the AuthorNorma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982). Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982). Table of ContentsThe Virgin's one bare breast : nudity, gender, and religious meaning in Tuscan early Renaissance culture / Margaret R. Miles — Women in frames : the gaze, the eye, the profile in Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons — Leonardo da Vinci : female portraits, female nature / Mary D. Garrard — The taming of the blue : writing out color in Italian Renaissance theory / Patricia L. Reilly — Botticelli's Primavera : a lesson for the bride / Lilian Zirpolo — Titian's Sacred and profane love and marriage / Rona Goffen — The Loggia dei Lanzi : a showcase of female subjugation / Yael Even — The erotics of absolutism : Rubens and the mystification of sexual violence / Margaret D. Carroll — The muted other : gender and morality in Augustan Rome and eighteenth-century Europe / Natalie Boymel Kampen — Secluded vision : images of feminine experience in nineteenth-century Europe / Anne Higonnet — "Disagreeably hidden" : construction and constriction of the lesbian body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse fair / James M. Saslow --
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