The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
(Part of the Franklin D. Murphy Lectures Series)
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The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Class, gender, power, and agency are at stake in both arenas, but they play themselves out in different ways via different pictorial languages.
Degas's depictions of anonymous young female ballerinas at the Paris...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0295987936
ISBN13:9780295987934
Release Date:July 2008
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 7.1" x 10.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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