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Marble queens and captives : women in nineteenth-century American sculpture / Joy S. Kasson
by Kasson, Joy S
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780300045963
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 293 pp.: illustrations ; 27 cm. Contents; Ideal Sculpture: Artists and Patrons -- Viewing Ideal Sculpture: Contexts and Audiences -- Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave -- Between Two Worlds: The White Captive -- Death and Domesticity: Shipwrecked Mother and Child -- The Problematics of Female Power: Zenobia -- Woman's Other Face: Eve and Pandora -- Domesticating the Demonic: Medea -- Conclusion: Gender and Power. Subjects; Marble sculpture, American 19th century. Women in art. Art and history. Culture and art. Neoclassicism (Art).
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- Title
- Marble queens and captives : women in nineteenth-century American sculpture / Joy S. Kasson
- Author
- Kasson, Joy S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300045964
- ISBN 13
- 9780300045963
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1990
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