Gender and Art

by Edited by Gill Perry

• ISBN13: 9780300077599
• ISBN10: 0300077599
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-05-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this intriguing book, a diverse collection of case studies sheds light on the effects of gender issues on the study of art history. Encompassing European art, architecture, and design from the sixteenth century to the present day, the book examines the role of gender difference in the production, consumption, and interpretation of works of art. The authors explore both the work of women artists and the ways that visual representation by both female and male artists may be gendered.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Introduction: gender and art history	8	(25)
Gill Perry
PART 1 MADE IN HER IMAGE: WOMEN, PORTRAITURE AND GENDER IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
Introduction	33	(4)
Catherine King
Portrait of the artist as a woman	37	(24)
Catherine King
What women can make	61	(29)
Catherine King
PART 2 GENDER, GENRES AND ACADEMIC ART IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Introduction	87	(3)
Gill Perry
Women artists, `masculine' art and the Royal Academy of Art	90	(18)
Gill Perry
Women artists and the French Academy: Vigee-Lebrun in the 1780s	108	(46)
Emma Barker
PART 3 GENDER, CLASS AND POWER IN BRITISH ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Introduction	129	(25)
Gill Perry
Masculinity and English architectural classicism	130
Christy
Class and sexuality in Victorian art	154	(21)
Lynda Nead
Gender and design in the Victorian period	175	(24)
Colin Cunningham
Conclusion to Part 3	193	(2)
Gill Perry
PART 4 GENDER, MODERNISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Introduction: gender, modernism and feminist art history	195	(4)
Gill Perry
The Parisian avant-grade and `feminine' art in the early twentieth century	199	(30)
Gill Perry
Psychoanalysis, gender and art	229	(11)
Claire Pajaczkowska
The work of art, the work of psychoanalysis	240	(12)
Briony Fer
Gender and fetishism: an overview	252	(7)
Gill Perry
Recommended reading	259	(2)
Index	261