The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France

by Tamar Garb

The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Class, gender, power, and agency are at stake in both arenas, but they play themselves out in different ways via different pictorial languages.

Degas's depictions of anonymous young female ballerinas at the Paris...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295987936
• ISBN13: 9780295987934
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher