Images of the self as female : the achievement of women artists in re-envisioning feminine identity

Author(s)

    • Benzel, Kathryn N.
    • De La Vars, Lauren Pringle

Bibliographic Information

Images of the self as female : the achievement of women artists in re-envisioning feminine identity

edited by Kathryn N. Benzel and Lauren Pringle De La Vars

(Women's studies, v. 4)

Edwin Mellen Press, c1992

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays on the work of female artists in relation to female identity covers such topics as: the practice of art in the life of Clara Schumann; sign and self in Mary Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair; and the black woman artist as theologian.

Table of Contents

  • `Restored to Their Rightful Owners': Correcting Distortions in Women's Literary and Art History" by Lauren P. De La Vars
  • "`It Is the Very Air I Breathe': The Practice of Art in the Life of Clara Schumann" by Gordon J. De La Vars
  • "Woman as Poet in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh" by Linda M. Lewis
  • "A Whirlwind on the Hard Red Clay: The Black Woman Artist as Theologian" by Martha J. Reineke
  • "Willa Cather's Visions and Revisions of Female Lives" by Susan Rosowski
  • "The Eternal Eve and the Newly Born Woman: Marianne Moore's `Marriage'" by Bruce Henderson
  • "Sign and Self in Mary Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" by Rosemary Welsh
  • and "Alice Neel: The Cinderella of Spanish Harlem" by Marilynn Lincoln Board.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA28079769
  • ISBN
    • 0889461228
  • LCCN
    90034981
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Lewiston
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 288 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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