Dealing with Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision

by Griselda Pollock and Richard Kendall

Book Overview

Leading scholars offer new readings of Degas' representations of the family, prostitution, city life and leisure in which looking at women is shown to be a complex and ambiguous process. One major topic of the book is the encounter between feminism and art history. Having put ?images of women' on the agenda of cultural analysis, feminist interventions in the theory and analysis of representation have created a diverse and intricate field of interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876636288
• ISBN13: 9780876636282
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.7"