Battle of the sexes
Subtitle: Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo
By: editor, Felix Krämer
Contributors: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9783791355733; 9783941399686
Subjects: Sex in art; Women in art; Exhibitions; Man-woman relationships in art; Modern Art; Sex role in art; Gender identity in art; Themes, motives
Work titles: Geschlechterkampf. English
Description: The exhibition "Battle of the Sexes: Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo" will shed light on the artistic investigation of gender roles from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The traditional definition of male and female as active/passive, rational/emotional, culture/nature was heavily debated in modern art: many artists presented their viewers with overstated gender characteristics and cemented stereotypical role models in their works. Others challenged established clichés and endeavoured to subvert them with strategies such as irony, exaggeration, masquerade and blending. Featuring a selection of some 150 works of painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography and film, the large-scale exhibition project aims to single out the especially concise artistic positions and open up a dialogue between them.  -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 24, 2016-March 19, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-333).

Text in English, with translations from the German.
Table of contents: title: Words of greeting / Helmut Müller; title: Foreword / Philipp Demandt; title: Battle of the sexes : an approximation / the curators Felicity Korn and Felix Krämer in conversation with Rose-Maria Gropp; title: The body as image : art as theatre of the sexes / Andreas Beyer; title: Men's fears and women's desires : the battle of the sexes from 1850 to 1950 / Ute Frevert; title: Adam and Eve / Katharina Ferus; title: Under the spell of the sphinx : Salome and her sisters in the art of the late nineteenth century / Daniel Zamani; title: Carnal logic : Franz von Stuck / Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker; title: Deadly seduction : the image of the femme fatale around 1900 / Melanie Ulz; title: Coitus with octopus : Félicien Rops and the presentation of sexuality around 1900 / Nele Putz; title: Jeanne Mammen / Katharina Ferus; title: The shock of the real / Ingo Borges; title: Whore or saint? The image of women in the works of Edvard Munch / Elena Schroll; title: Lust murder and prostitution / Anne Vieth; title: Role model in flux : man and woman in the arts of the Weimar Republic / Miriam Halwani; title: Lee Miller : "I'd rather take a picture than be one" / Kristina Lemke; title: Under the sign of the androgyne : sexuality and gender in surrealist art / Daniel Zamani; title: Beauty and the beast : the battle of the sexes in cinema between 1895 and 1945 / Svetlana Svyatskaya; title: Chronology / Daniela Leykam.