The Witch As Muse
Subtitle: Art, Gender, And Power In Early Modern Europe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780812238693
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Witchcraft in art; Art, European; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Europe; Witches in art; Subjects & Themes - General; 16th century; Gender identity in art
First sentence: Any art historian attempting to establish his or her own interpretive stance on the images of witches I discuss in this book must ultimately grapple with the historiography of the European witch-hunts and with the changing place of gender as an analytical category.