Women, aging, and art : a crosscultural anthology / edited by Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofrichter, Frima Fox, editor.

Yoshimoto, Midori, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging in art.

Older women in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In light of the global aging crisis and concerns, this book sheds a light on images of old women through twelve varied representations from diverse cultures, spanning medieval to contemporary times, and provides a counter to the stereotypes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Alchemy's Old Wives / M.E. Warlick

Silenced, Sidelined, and Even Undressed: Old Women in Seventeenth-Century Religious Art / Zirka Z. Filipczak

Anger, Envy and Aging: Early Modern Transgressive Old Women / Jane Kromm

Frans Hals's Portrait of an Older Judith Leyster / Paul Crenshaw

Old Maids: Images of Elderly Servants in Early Modern Europe / Diane Wolfthal

Portraits of Power: Matriarchal Masks of the Northwest Coast in the Nineteenth Century / Megan A. Smetzer

Paetini and Vaekehu: Change and Aging in the Portraits of Marquesan Matriarchs / Carol Ivory

Old Women/New Vision: Lucia Moholy's Photographs of Clara Zetkin / Vanessa Rocco

Sculptor, Hostess, Witch: Unpacking Louise Nevelson's Boxes / Johana Ruth Epstein

To Honor or Condemn: Museums and the Women of Sande / Susan Kart

Aging and Feminist Art: Semmel's Visible Bodies / Rachel Middleman

Darkness of Girlhood and Lightness of Aging: Miwa Yanagi's Transcendental Old Women / Midori Yoshimoto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501349423

1501349422

9781501349416

1501349414

9781501349430

1501349430

OCLC:

1238133753