The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination - Softcover

Classen, Constance

 
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Synopsis

The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

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About the Author

Constance Classen is a cultural historian whose previous publications include Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures and Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (with David Howes and Anthony Synnott).

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ISBN 10:  0415180732 ISBN 13:  9780415180733
Publisher: Routledge, 1998
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