Catherine McCormack looks closely at four archetypes of women in art to examine not only how we look at art but also how we view women in general.
Norton
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Norton
9780393542080
Catherine McCormack looks closely at four archetypes of women in art to examine not only how we look at art but also how we view women in general.
As art historian Catherine McCormack points out in Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies, galleries and museums are full of paintings and statues of women in various guises and genres. Indeed, there are so many that we rarely take time to consider the implications of how they are depicted. We see…
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