This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland. Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male and female gaze, Dr. Cortney Cronberg Barko perceptively examines how these authors challenge androcentric models of reading by demonstrating women’s powers as readers and writers. This intriguing study reveals that authors working within the genre of fictionalized biographies of women painters reconstruct art history to create a new canon for women artists and invent a rhetoric about art that empowers women. This book is ideal for art history courses and a wide range of literature courses, including fiction, literary theory, literary criticism, feminist literary theory, and women's literature.
| ISBN: | 9781433127113 |
| Publication date: | 29th November 2015 |
| Author: | Cortney Cronberg Barko |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 138 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 The arts: general topics Regional / International studies Gender studies: women and girls |