Marble queens and captives : women in nineteenth-century American sculpture / Joy S. Kasson
1990, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388924
ISBN: 0300045964
Physical description; 293 pp.: illustrations ; 27 cm. Contents; Ideal Sculpture: Artists and Patrons -- Viewing Ideal Sculpture: Contexts and Audiences -- Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave -- Between Two Worlds: The White Captive -- Death and Domesticity: Shipwrecked Mother and Child -- The Problematics of Female Power: Zenobia -- Woman's Other Face: Eve and Pandora -- Domesticating the Demonic: Medea -- Conclusion: Gender and Power. Subjects; Marble sculpture, American 19th century. Women in art. Art and history. Culture and art. Neoclassicism (Art).
Price: €28.00