His other half : men looking at women through art /
Lesser, Wendy
His other half : men looking at women through art / Wendy Lesser. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.
Divided selves -- Mothers -- Degas's nudes -- Gissing's even-handed oddness -- Henry James and the battle of the sexes -- Hitchcock's couples -- Randall Jarrell's sinister beings -- Beaton's ladies -- The disembodied body of Marilyn Monroe -- Stanwyck -- Closing the circle.
Wendy Lesser counters the reigning belief that male artists inevitably misrepresent women. She builds this case through inquiry into many unexpected and delightfully germane subjects - Marilyn Monroe's walk, for instance, or the dwarf manicurist Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, or the shoulder blades of Degas's bathers. Placing such particulars within the framework of Plato's myth of the divided beings and psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, Lesser sets before us an art that responds to and even attempts to overcome division.
0674392108 (alk. paper) : $24.95
^^^90037165^
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy 1904-1980
Degas, Edgar 1834-1917
Börngen, ...
1800-1999
Women in art.
Arts, Modern--19th century
Arts, Modern--20th century
Artists--Relations with women.
Women--Public opinion.
Class of Fall 2003 Holtzbrinck Fellow Fellow
NX652.W6 / L4 1991
700
His other half : men looking at women through art / Wendy Lesser. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.
Divided selves -- Mothers -- Degas's nudes -- Gissing's even-handed oddness -- Henry James and the battle of the sexes -- Hitchcock's couples -- Randall Jarrell's sinister beings -- Beaton's ladies -- The disembodied body of Marilyn Monroe -- Stanwyck -- Closing the circle.
Wendy Lesser counters the reigning belief that male artists inevitably misrepresent women. She builds this case through inquiry into many unexpected and delightfully germane subjects - Marilyn Monroe's walk, for instance, or the dwarf manicurist Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, or the shoulder blades of Degas's bathers. Placing such particulars within the framework of Plato's myth of the divided beings and psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, Lesser sets before us an art that responds to and even attempts to overcome division.
0674392108 (alk. paper) : $24.95
^^^90037165^
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy 1904-1980
Degas, Edgar 1834-1917
Börngen, ...
1800-1999
Women in art.
Arts, Modern--19th century
Arts, Modern--20th century
Artists--Relations with women.
Women--Public opinion.
Class of Fall 2003 Holtzbrinck Fellow Fellow
NX652.W6 / L4 1991
700