Monuments & Maidens – The Allegory of the Female Form - Softcover

Warner, M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520227336 ISBN 13: 9780520227330

Publisher: University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.

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Monuments and Maidens Explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form. This title examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Full description

Review:

"Why should Truth be a woman? or Nature? or Justice? or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters Western cityscapes."--Lorna Sage, "Observer"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0520227336
• ISBN 13: 9780520227330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440