Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800

by Marcia Pointon

In this unusual and original study, Marcia Pointon examines the cultural effects and consequences of the participation by women in acts of representation in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She explores their lives and work, and a cultural environment in which images of female saints and goddesses established indices of femininity in the homes of wealthy men. Did the women portrayed also possess artifacts, and did they use the power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019817411X
• ISBN13: 9780198174110
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.5" x 6.4"