Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Culture, 1840-1900

by Stephen Kern

Stephen Kern has discovered in Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist art a recurring pattern for arranging the sexes: a profiled man gazing at a woman who looks away from him and toward the viewer, while she ponders an apparent offer. Kern draws on such images to challenge the claim of some feminist critics and historians that gazing men monopolize subjectivity and turn women into sex objects. So intent are these writers on viewing women as victims,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814746861
• ISBN13: 9780814746868
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"