Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520227330ISBN-10:520227336UPC:9780520227330Book Category:Art, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Women's Studies, AestheticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SCVQQB623Q
Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520227330ISBN-10:520227336UPC:9780520227330Book Category:Art, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Women's Studies, AestheticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SCVQQB623Q
Among Marina Warner's books are From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1995), Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1983), and Joan of Arc (California, 1999).
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