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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
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Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art―think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais―and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women's identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways. 20 illustrations
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"A timely, succinct, aesthetic inquiry into debates about sexuality, objectification, and representation."
"You catch more flies with honey than vinegar and you catch more readers with good prose than bad."
"This eye-opening work will leave readers with plenty to ponder."
"While her analysis of historical painting and sculpture is whip smart and probing, her modern corollaries are oddly random ..."
"A thought-provoking purchase for academic library art history and women's studies collections."
"Women in the Picture mounts a sensitive and probing critique of the motifs, the preordained poses and affectations of the female figure in art."
"McCormack's mad dash through and around the confluence of issues of gender, power and representation in art is a passionate, serious, yet often entertaining introduction to issues that will be with us for the foreseeable future, their historic context and their implications for women."
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