In her own image
Subtitle: women's self-representation in twentieth-century art
By: Danielle Knafo.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; UNKNO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780838642108
Subjects: Women artists -- Psychology; Self-presentation in art; Women in art; Art, Modern -- 20th century
Description: Knafo, a feminist psychoanalyst and art critic, extends the discourse between feminism and art history, while revealing core psychological sensibilities involved in women's self-representation - the need for mirroring, the use of mask and masquerade, the drive for reparation, the presence of the uncanny, and the concept of female narcissism. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Käthe Kollwitz: the dead mother; title: Claude Cahun: the third sex; title: Charlotte Salomon: the art of trauma; title: Frida Kahlo: mirror and mask; title: Carolee Schneemann: feminine erotics; title: Hannah Wilke: the naked truth; title: Ana Mendieta: goddess in exile; title: Adrian Piper: plain as black and white; title: Cindy Sherman: dressing up and make-believe; title: Orlan: monster beauty.