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Fascinating essays Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea Dworkin

Trade Review
'Fascinating … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' - Andrea Dworkin
'A joy to read … blunt, funny, mischievous, learned, anything but dull and dogmatic' - London Review of Books
'Outstanding … rich and methodologically sophisticated' - Art in America
'Invaluable' - Art Journal
'If you care about the representation of women, you need to read this … Nochlin’s direct, provocative and personal tone is a radical rewriting of women in art history' - Elephant

Table of Contents
Introduction: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian • 1. The Myth of the Woman Warrior • 2. Géricault: The Absence of Women • 3. The Image of the Working Woman • 4. Courbet’s Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter’s Studio • 5. A House Is Not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family • 6. Mary Cassatt’s Modernity • 7. Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses

Representing Women

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Published 4 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9780500294758
      978-0500294758
      ISBN-10 0500294755
      Also in:
      Art & Photography Human figures depicted in the arts Paintings and painting The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fascinating essays Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea Dworkin

      Trade Review
      'Fascinating … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' - Andrea Dworkin
      'A joy to read … blunt, funny, mischievous, learned, anything but dull and dogmatic' - London Review of Books
      'Outstanding … rich and methodologically sophisticated' - Art in America
      'Invaluable' - Art Journal
      'If you care about the representation of women, you need to read this … Nochlin’s direct, provocative and personal tone is a radical rewriting of women in art history' - Elephant

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian • 1. The Myth of the Woman Warrior • 2. Géricault: The Absence of Women • 3. The Image of the Working Woman • 4. Courbet’s Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter’s Studio • 5. A House Is Not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family • 6. Mary Cassatt’s Modernity • 7. Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses

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