His other half
Subtitle: men looking at women through art
By: Wendy Lesser.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Women in art; Arts, Modern -- 19th century; Arts, Modern -- 20th century; Artists -- Relations with women; Women -- Public opinion
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.