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Breaking the bronze ceiling : women, memory, and public space / edited by Valentina Rozas-Krause and Andrew M. Shanken.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part I: Patronized Women
- 1. Innocence and Guilt: Memorializing a Gender Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile
- 2. George Eliot at Nuneaton and Trans Monumentality
- Toppling Pocahontas
- Monument to the Chilean Women Victims of Political Repression
- Part II: Public Women
- 3. White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson's Portrait Monument
- 4. "We Shall Beg No More": Helen Keller, Politics, and Commemorations in the National Statuary Hall
- Monument to Sojourner Truth
- Fearless Girl, New York City
- Monument to the Empress Maria-Theresia, Vienna, Austria
- Part III: Women Warriors
- 5. The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate Monuments
- 6. Firearms, Flowers, and Barricades: Women's Reinscriptions in the Mexican Landscape of Monuments
- Memorial to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy (Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl, 1909-1912), Columbia, South Carolina
- Memorial to the Black Mothers of the Periphery Fighting against State Terrorism, Rio de Janeiro
- Mujeres Creando, Plaza Chola Globalizada, La Paz, Bolivia
- Part IV: Allegorical Women
- 7. The Colonial Marianne: Representing Liberté and France in Occupied North Africa
- 8. Female Winged Victory Statues in French Algeria
- The Argentine Marianne
- I Am Queen Mary, Copenhagen
- Patience on a Monument: A History Painting
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5315-0641-0
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