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Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
Patricia Phillippy
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Description for Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
Hardback. In Painting Women, Phillippy provides a cross-disciplinary study of women as objects and agents of painting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating her study in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, France, and England, Patricia Phillippy brings together three distinct actors: women who paint themselves with cosmetics, women who paint on canvas, and women and men who paint women-either with pigment or with words. Phillippy asserts that early modern attitudes toward painting, cosmetics, and poetry emerge from and respond ... Read more
This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating her study in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, France, and England, Patricia Phillippy brings together three distinct actors: women who paint themselves with cosmetics, women who paint on canvas, and women and men who paint women-either with pigment or with words. Phillippy asserts that early modern attitudes toward painting, cosmetics, and poetry emerge from and respond ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801882258
SKU
V9780801882258
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About Patricia Phillippy
Patricia Phillippy is a professor of English at Texas A&M University.
Reviews for Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
A deeply illuminating work on aspects of material culture... which shaped following ages.
Henry Berry Midwest Book Review 2006 Phillippy strikes a delicate interpretive balance between contemporary criticism and specific historical periods, cultures, and genres that will undoubtedly guide future research. H-France 2006 One will undoubtedly be enriched by many of the previously obscured glimpses that she has succeeded ... Read more
Henry Berry Midwest Book Review 2006 Phillippy strikes a delicate interpretive balance between contemporary criticism and specific historical periods, cultures, and genres that will undoubtedly guide future research. H-France 2006 One will undoubtedly be enriched by many of the previously obscured glimpses that she has succeeded ... Read more