Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

by Nanette Salomon

Book Overview

This ground-breaking book offers the first sustained examination of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective. Salomon expands the possibilities for understanding both familiar and unfamiliar paintings from this period by submitting them to a wide range of new and provocative questions. Paintings and prints from the first half of the century through to the second are analyzed to understand the changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744777
• ISBN13: 9780804744775
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"