In the fold between power and desire : women artists' narratives / Maria Tamboukou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamboukou, Maria, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--History--19th century.

Women artists.

Women artists--Biography.

Feminism and the arts--History--19th century.

Feminism and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores entanglements of power relations and forces of desire in life narratives and visual images. The analysis draws on paintings and archival auto/biographical writings of six fin-de-siècle women artists, who are brought together as narrative personae in a genealogical exploration of the constitution of the female self in art. The author offers an innovative theoretical approach to narrative research by bringing together feminist theories with Foucauldian and DeleuzoGuattarian analytics. The book will be of particular interest for researchers and graduate students in the fields of feminist, narrative and visual studies.

Contents:

Auto/biography and the portrait: Rosa Bonheur and Anna Klumpke

The art of moving: narrative technologies in the memoir of Sofie Laskaridou

Epistolary geographies and smooth spaces: unfoldiing Gwen John

Landscapes for the self: Carrington's letters, drawings and paintings

Narratives as assemblages: Mary Bradish Titcomb

Narrative pleasures: ethics, aesthetics and politics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-69240-2

9786612692406

1-4438-2186-1

OCLC:

823720771