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His other half : men looking at women through art / Wendy Lesser.

Lesser, Wendy. (Author).

Summary:

Wendy Lesser counters the reigning belief that male artists inevitably misrepresent women. She builds this case through inquiry into many unexpected and delightfully germane subjects - Marilyn Monroe's walk, for instance, or the dwarf manicurist Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, or the shoulder blades of Degas's bathers. Placing such particulars within the framework of Plato's myth of the divided beings and psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, Lesser sets before us an art that responds to and even attempts to overcome division.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0674392108
  • ISBN: 9780674392106
  • Physical Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Divided selves -- Mothers -- Degas's nudes -- Gissing's even-handed oddness -- Henry James and the battle of the sexes -- Hitchcock's couples -- Randall Jarrell's sinister beings -- Beaton's ladies -- The disembodied body of Marilyn Monroe -- Stanwyck -- Closing the circle.
Subject:
Women in art.
Arts, Modern > 19th century.
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Artists > Relations with women.
Women > Public opinion.
Artists > Relations with women.
Arts, Modern.
Women in art.
Women > Public opinion.
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy 1904-1980
Degas, Edgar 1834-1917

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library NX 652 .W6 L47 1991 255320 Stacks Available -

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