MATERNAL BODIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS (HB 2014)
Language: English
Published by SP Manchester UP, 2014
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- Title
- MATERNAL BODIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS (HB 2014)
- Author
- CP MANCHESTER UP
- Publisher
- SP Manchester UP
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0719083486
- ISBN 13
- 9780719083488
- Edition
- International Edition
This book brings images of the maternal and pregnant body into the centre of art historical enquiry. By exploring religious, secular and scientific traditions as well as contemporary art practices, it demonstrates the power of visual imagery in framing our understanding of maternal bodies and in affirming or contesting prevailing maternal ideals. In western visual traditions the maternal body was conceived primarily in terms of a sacred vessel of divinity enshrined in the Christian virginal-maternal ideal or as a container for the unborn child in scientific representations of pregnancy. This book reassesses these historical models and in drawing on original case studies shows how visual practices by artists may offer the means of reconfiguring the maternal.
Maternal bodies in the visual arts addresses themes of maternal space and time, sacred, medical and monstrous representations of maternal bodies, practices by maternal artists and the ageing maternal body. Each chapter is framed around readings of specific artworks by artists from Piero della Francesca to Louise Bourgeois that open up maternal embodiment as a space for investigation. At its heart is a crucial question: what does it mean to employ art as a means of thinking through the maternal? Uniquely it offers an investigation of maternal embodiment as the process of becoming a maternal subject. For many women who practice art, become pregnant and give birth, the most powerful and often transforming experience of their lives is routinely dismissed as sentimental or irrelevant to contemporary art practice. This book demonstrates how becoming maternal is a central but overlooked experience in art.
The book will appeal to students, academics and researchers in Art History, Gender Studies and Maternal Studies, as well as to any reader who is interested in visual perspectives on the maternal.
Rosemary Betterton is one of the leading scholars in feminist art history of her generation and has written widely on women’s historical and contemporary art practices.
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