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Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
Lisa L. Moore
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Description for Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 60 b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: ACQ; AGC; AGHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
In the great age of English garden design, eighteenth-century women working in the “sister arts” of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and intriguing stories, Lisa L. Moore reveals how these women artists used flowers, gardens, and landscapes to express their love for other women.
Aristocratic diarist Mary Delany built a garden grotto for the exclusive use of herself and the naturalist and ... Read more
In the great age of English garden design, eighteenth-century women working in the “sister arts” of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and intriguing stories, Lisa L. Moore reveals how these women artists used flowers, gardens, and landscapes to express their love for other women.
Aristocratic diarist Mary Delany built a garden grotto for the exclusive use of herself and the naturalist and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670147
SKU
V9780816670147
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Ref
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About Lisa L. Moore
Lisa L. Moore is associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel.
Reviews for Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
"As its lyrical title suggests, Sister Arts, Lisa Moore's loving account of the unusual and haunting works produced by her four subjects-elegiac friendship poems, picturesque landscape designs, leaf collages and scrapbooks, collections of flowers, shells, and butterflies-at once illuminates and charms, deepening our understanding both of female–female intimacy and the elegantly subversive means women in past centuries found to express ... Read more