Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Williams, Georgina (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Great Britain-History.; Women.; Social history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Women's Studies.; Social History.; History of Modern Europe.; Cultural History.

This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This inve...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Women in the Frame
• 2. The Reshaping of Society and the Rise of the Avant-Gardes
• 3. Inside and Outside the Frame: The Female Figure as Subject and Artist
• 4. The Politics of Aesthetics and the Woman Question
• 5. From Presence to Absence: Exploiting Female Sexuality in Visual Culture
• 6. A Visual Genealogy: Tracing the Threads as Nodes Within a Network
• 7. Women in the Frame: To Be Concluded
• Index.