Woodslane | Book - 9780814746868

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ISBN-13: 9780814746868
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Stephen Kern
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Local release date: 01/05/1996
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 216 pages Weight: 862g
Categories: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - [ACX]Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]England [1DBKE]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Author Biography
Google Preview: Stephen Kern has discovered in Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist art a recurring pattern for arranging the sexes: a profiled man gazing at a woman who looks away from him and toward the viewer, while she ponders an apparent offer. Kern draws on such images to challenge the claim of some feminist critics and historians that gazing men monopolize subjectivity and turn women into sex objects. So intent are these writers on viewing women as victims, who in fact reveal a commanding subjectivity. Compared with the eyes of men, women's eyes are more visible, consider more varied thoughts, and convey more profound, if not more intense, emotions. An authoritative and highly original survey of European art and literature, Eyes of Love also challenges another widely held belief - that a double standard has clearly governed how society judged the sexes. Kern supports these startling interpretations of Renoir, Manet, Degas, Rossetti, Gauguin, Millais, Hunt, Burne-Jones, and Tissot with every evidence from novels by Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Dickens, C. Bronte, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and H. James.; Stephen Kern is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 and The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns.; Google Preview content