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Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Cen
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1990-09-26
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780300045963
- Book Title
- Marble Queens and Captives : Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Length
- 2.4 in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Sculpture & Installation, General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
- Item Weight
- 34.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 2.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300045964
ISBN-13
9780300045963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103839
Product Key Features
Book Title
Marble Queens and Captives : Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Item Length
2.4 in
Item Width
2.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-077342
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
730/.973/09034
Synopsis
In this book Jay Kasson argues that there was a connection between the popularity of artworks such as these, which derive from a sentimental literary culture, and the rapidly changing social, economic, and political environment that was beginning to raise questions about women's nature and role in society., When nineteenth-century Americans looked at a statue of a nude woman in chains, or a shipwrecked mother and child, what did they see? When they talked or wrote about them, what did they say? In this engrossing book, Joy S. Kasson argues that there was a connection between the popularity of artworks such as these, which derive from a sentimental literary culture, and the rapidly changing social, economic, and political environment that was beginning to raise questions about women's nature and role in society. By exploring the once-popular genre of ideal sculpture, with its focus on female subjects and its insistence on narrative content, Kasson is able to shed light on conventional assumptions about gender roles, as well as the tensions that lay behind these beliefs. Kasson reconstructs the intellectual, aesthetic, and literary contexts in which these sculptures were viewed and traces the social history of their production and reception. She shows that sculptors and audiences repeatedly idealized women as fragile, endangered, and vulnerable. Immoral or powerful women, such as Eve, Pandora, or Medea, were presented in a web of sentimental narrative that hinted at moral redemption in order to reassure viewers that woman's true nature would remain domestic and maternal. Kasson looks closely at a number of sculptures that exemplified these themes--from Hiram Power's The Greek Slave to works by the most prominent female sculptor of the period, Harriet Hosmer. Resurrecting these forgotten artworks and explicating their narrative context, she provides fresh insights into the cultural construction of gender in nineteenth-century America.
LC Classification Number
NB1210.M3K3 1990
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