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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460170903321

Titolo

Female beauty in art : history, feminism, women artists / / edited by Maria Ioannou and Maria Kyriakidou ; contributors Adrienne Christiansen [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-7016-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Women - Identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods t...