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Cookie akzeptierenGeorgina Williams
Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918
- Springer International Publishing
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 204 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030093112
This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and constructs as objects contained within, both literal and metaphorical. In this way visual genealogical threads including the female figure as an ideal and William Hogarth¿s 'line of beauty' are explored, and their legacies assessed and followed through into the twenty-first century. Georgina Williams contributes to debates surrounding the deliberate and inadvertent
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