Woman - image - text : readings in pre-Raphaelite art and literature
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Woman - image - text : readings in pre-Raphaelite art and literature
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 150-157
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780745006314
Description
This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted in many of the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for example, are set in a feminist reading context and the different ways in which different viewers react to "The Lady of Shallott" (by Waterhouse) are explained with reference to a feminist schemata.
Table of Contents
- Towards a theory of gendered reading
- the virgin - solid frames
- Beatice - hazy outlines
- Mariana - gorgeous surfaces
- the Lady of Shalott - cracking the mirror
- Isabella - sharp differences
- Madeline - ghostly signifiers
- Guenevere - emergent heroines
- Venus - Pyrrhic victory
- gendered reading in practice.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745006321
Description
This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted in many of the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for example, are set in a feminist reading context and the different ways in which different viewers react to "The Lady of Shallott" (by Waterhouse) are explained with reference to a feminist schemata.
Table of Contents
- Towards a theory of gendered reading
- the virgin - solid frames
- Beatrice - hazy outlines
- Mariana - gorgeous surfaces
- the Lady of Shalott - cracking the mirror
- Isabella - sharp differences
- Madeline - ghostly signifiers
- Guenevere - emergent heroines
- Venus - Pyrrhic victory
- gendered reading in practice.
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