Co-edited by Norma Broude and Mary Garrard. "A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains twenty-nine essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of recent feminist scholarship. There are 290 illustrations integrated with the text, notes and bibliographic references at the end of each essay, and an explanatory and interpretative introduction by the editors." - Abstract.
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Language

English

Publication/Creation date

1992

No of pages

518

ISBN / ISSN

0064302075

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction: The Expanding Discourse

Virgin's One Bare Breast: Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in Tuscan Early Renaissance Culture

Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture

Leonardo da Vinci: Female Portraits, Female Nature

Taming of the Blue: Writing Out Color in Renaissance Theory

Botticelli's Primavera: A Lesson for the Bride

Titian's Sacred and Profane Love and Marriage

The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation

Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence

Muted Other: Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe

'Disagreeably Hidden': Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair

'L'Art Feminin': Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteeth-Century France

Morisot's Wet Nurse: Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting

Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity

Edgar Degas and French Feminism, ca. 1880: 'The Young Spartans,' the Brothel Monotypes, and the Bathers Revisited

Renoir and the Natural Women

Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism

Gauguin's Tahitian Body

The MoMA's Hot Mamas

Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisse's Odalisques

Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art

Culture, Politics, and Identity in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo

Egalitarian Vision, Gendered Experience: Women Prinmakers and the WPA/FAP Graphic Arts Project

Lee Krasner as L.K.

Georgia O'Keefe and Feminism: A Problem of Position

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party: A Personal Vision of Women's History

Race Riots. Cocktail Parties. Black Panthers. Moon Shots and Feminists: Faith Ringgold's Observations on the 1960s in America

Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold

Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism

The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History
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