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Alix Paré - Women in Art, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Women in Art

Icons, from Frescoes to Street Art

Av Alix Paré

Del i serien Tra Publishing

214 kr

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"An illuminating and accessible portrait of women’s place in art and society." —Publishers Weekly A sweeping historical and cultural examination of how women–and particularly, heroines–have been represented, interpreted, and reimagined throughout art history. From the patient Penelope to the invincible Wonder Woman; from the cruel Medea to the pious Geneviève; from the warrior Mulan to the lover Juliet; from activist Rosa Parks to the symbol of Lady Liberty: who are these women who inhabit the imagination of artists? Heroines in Art explores the women who populate artists’ imaginations and our shared visual memory. Tracing the evolution of female heroism from myth to modernity, thirty-seven works reveal how painters, sculptors, illustrators, and performers have negotiated the tension between celebrating female strength and containing its threat. Throughout, you’ll explore the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Utagawa Hiroshige, Nam June Paik, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, Faith Ringgold, and more—alongside icons such as Cleopatra, Baba Yaga, Joan of Arc, Shéhérazade, and Joséphine Baker. Inside, you’ll also find: A curated selection of essential and unexpected worksTimelines, maps, and chartsAnecdotes, historical context, and varied sidebars
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-03
  • Mått: 170 x 239 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 567 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Tra Publishing
  • Antal sidor: 108
  • Förlag: TRA Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781962098434
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Alix Paré is a lecturer specializing in Western painting of the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. After an eight-year tenure at both the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles, she now gives art history lessons and takes part in major Parisian exhibitions. A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, she is the author of Cats in Art and Women in Art, among others.

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This energetic survey from art historian Paré (Cats in Art) spotlights artworks featuring famous female muses “from Cleopatra to Joséphine Baker.” Each work is paired with a timeline, relevant quotations, and literary references, along with an analysis of the piece and how portrayals of its subject have shifted throughout history. Peter Paul Rubens’s 1616 painting of the mythical Atalanta, for example, depicts her as a beauty receiving the decapitated head of a wild boar, straying from earlier portrayals of the heroine as an athlete or huntress. Elsewhere, Giorgio di Chirico’s 1973 oil painting Antigone Consolatrice imagines Antigone and her father as faceless mannequins, drawing on previous artists’ renderings of the pair while “planting doubt” in the viewer’s mind (“Which figure is Antigone, really?”). While the topic can feel overly broad, Paré surveys a unique mix of historical, fictional, and mythological subjects, and intersperses enjoyable bits of trivia throughout (Gustave Flaubert wanted no illustrations to appear in his novel Salammbô, but artists’ versions kept popping up after his 1880 death). It adds up to an illuminating and accessible portrait of women’s place in art and society.

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