Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art -- .
Trade Review'This book treads delicately between historical analysis ofthe visualisation of the maternal and an embodied experience of looking. It isvital for any visual artist, historian or social scientist seeking therehabilitation of the maternal into art history and the practice ofaesthetics.'
Hermione Wiltshire,artist and Senior Tutor in Photography, Royal College of Art
‘Betterton provides a dazzlingly erudite topography ofmaternal bodies across history and the western world, ranging from the sacredto the profane, from the public to the private and the dis/abled and “out ofplace” to culturally entrenched norms.'
Cathy McClive, BenWeider Chair in French Revolutionary Studies, Associate Professor in History,Florida State University
‘Maternal bodies is a rich and much needed account of thematernal and what may appear on the surface. It speaks of the artists who havechallenged and given voice to this important experience and summons a forcefulbank of representation and image through its visual intensity and dialogue.’
Helen Knowles,artist and Curator/Director of the Birth Rites Collection
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: becoming maternal
1 Maternal space and public intimacy
2 Maternal matters: making bodies in art
3 Enfleshing the divine: sacred and profane maternal bodies
4 The transparent womb: visual technologies and the maternal
5 Promising monsters and the maternal imagination
6 Maternal time: moments of encounter
7 Ageing and maternal bodies
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