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Monuments And Maidens - The Allegory Of The Female Form

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  • 448 páginas
  • 16 horas de lectura

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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 - The Allegory Of The Female Form, Marina Warner

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1987
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Título
Monuments And Maidens - The Allegory Of The Female Form
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Picador
Publicado en
1987
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
448
ISBN10
0330296752
ISBN13
9780330296755
Serie
Descripción
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.