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Free Download Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700) by Troy Thomas
English | August 11, 2020 | ISBN: 9463721843, 1041184603, 9781040799208 | True EPUB/PDF | 386 pages | 42/165 MB
Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women. The book's thematic chapters investigate Poussin's women in their roles as predators, as lustful or the objects of lust, as lovers, killers, victims, heroines, or models of virtue. Poussin's paintings reflect issues of gender within his social situation as he consciously or unconsciously articulated its conflicts and assumptions. A gender studies approach brings to light new critical insights that illuminate how the artist represented women, both positively and negatively, within the framework in his seventeenth-century culture.