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Art, Nation and Gender by Tricia Cusack & Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch
Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-figures
Visual art doesn't share the same language limitations that bedevil literature. These essays explore the ways in which nations have been represented visually and extend that analysis into an interdisciplinary study of nation and gender.This essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of countries - including Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Canada, Finland, Russia and Germany - during the 19th and 20th centuries. The contributors show visual imagery to be a particularly productive focus for analysing the intersections of nation and gender, since the nation and nationalism, as abstract concepts, have to be "embodied" in ways that make them imaginable, especially through the means of art. They explore how allegorical female figures personify the nation across a wide range of visual media, from sculpture to political cartoons and how national architectures may also be gendered. They show how through such representations, art reveals the ethno-cultural bases of nationalisms. Through the study of such images, the essays in this volume cast new light on the significance of gender in the construction of nationalist ideology and the constitution of the nation-state. In tackling the conjunctions of nation, gender and visual representation, the case studies presented in this publication can be seen to provide exciting new perspectives on the study of nations, of gender and the history of art. The range of countries chosen and the variety of images scrutinized create a broad arena for further debate. |
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| ISBN-10 : 0754632253 | ISBN-13 : 9780754632252 |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 28/03/2003
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Group
Page Length : 176mm
Page Size : 162mm