An intimate distance : women, artists, and the body /

Betterton, Rosemary,

An intimate distance : women, artists, and the body / Rosemary Betterton. - xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.

List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body -- Mother Figures: The Material Nude in the Work of Kathe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker -- 'A Perfect Woman': The Political Body of Suffrage -- Bodies in the Work: The Aesthetics and Politics of Women's Non-Representational Painting -- Life and A.R.T.: Metaphors of Motherhood and Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Body Horror? Food (and Sex and Death) in Women's Art -- Identities, Memories, Desires: The Body in History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Name Index -- Subject Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

041511084X 9780415110846

95044682


Women in art
Human figure in art
Women artists--Psychology

N7630. / B48 1996

704.9424

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