Art, nation and gender : ethnic landscapes, myths, and mother-figures / edited by Tricia Cusack and Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Association of Art Historians (Great Britain). Conference (2000 : Edinburgh, Scotland)

Contributor:

Cusack, Tricia.

Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and art--Congresses.

Nationalism and art.

Gender identity in art--Congresses.

Gender identity in art.

Arts, Modern--19th century--Congresses.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 147 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Part I Women as Allegories of the Nation: From Britannia to Mother Russia

1 Domesticating Britannia: Representations of the Nation in Punch: 1870-1880 / Anne Helmreich 15

2 Anima Celtica: Embodying the Soul of the Nation in 1890s Edinburgh / Murdo Macdonald 29

3 (Dis-)Embodying the Nation: Female Figures, Desire and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Finland / Johanna Valenius 38

4 Putting Mother Russia in a European Context / Linda Edmondson 53

Part II Regendering National Culture

5 Visual Marianism and National Identity in Ireland 1920-1960 / John Turpin 67

6 From the Zero Hour: Transparency, Gender and Architecture in Post-War Germany / Deborah Ascher Barnstone 79

Part III Women's art: Expanding National Identity

7 True Patriot Love: Joyce Wieland's Canada / Christine Conley 95

8 Becoming Women: Irigaray, Ireland and Visual Representation / Hilary Robinson 113.

Notes:

Papers presented at the Association of Art Historians' Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh in Apr. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [128]-141) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

0754632253

OCLC:

50143839