Women in the picture : what culture does with female bodies

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Label

Women in the picture : what culture does with female bodies

Title remainder

what culture does with female bodies

Statement of responsibility

Catherine McCormack

Creator

• McCormack, Catherine, 1980-

Author

• McCormack, Catherine, 1980-

Subject

• Art and society
• Man-woman relationships
• Sex role in art
• Women in art

Language

eng

Summary

"Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art--Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna--and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs, ads, and across social media. By society empowering men to represent women, women imbibe a distorted vision of themselves and their bodies, coming up against notions of impossible beauty, idealized passivity and violence, and horrifying Medusas. In this impassioned work, art historian Catherine McCormack evaluates the production and display of portrayals of women, exposing the underlying meanings, whether overt or symbolic. She counters them by turning to women artists like Berthe Morisot, Beyoncé, Suzanne Lacy, and Faith Ringgold. These women have been overturning confining depictions of identity, sexuality, race, and power to explore the breadth and multiplicity of women's visions of their own lives"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

704.9/424

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

N7630

LC item number

.M39 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult