[Mobile book] Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
• Marina Warner •
| #2297227 in Books | 2001-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.25 x6.00l,1.74 | File Name: 0520227336 | 440 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Anne Andrews|Thank you|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| excellent, though a bit highbrow|By Ginny Rose|Found this book a bit heavy slogging in the middle, but really enjoyed the first and third parts. Wish she'd spent more time on Part One The Female Presence Today, but instead the majority of|From Publishers Weekly|Examining an impressive scope of materialart (Donatello, Vermeer, Judy Chicago), Greek mythology, the Bible, literature, linguistics and mass mediaWarner (Alone of All Her Sex) traces the different meanings which have been ascribed to the
Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style. [PDF.eu32] Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form Rating: 3.85 (796 Votes)
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