Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies - Catherine Mccormack Audiobook

Written by Catherine Mccormack
Read by Patty Nieman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: November 16, 2021
Duration: 06:40:56

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.

Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art—think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais—and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women’s identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways.

Publishers Weekly – “…. From Titian’s The Rape of Europa (1560–1562), through works by Picasso and Warhol, and even to the Trump campaign’s portrayal of Hillary Clinton as a modern Medusa, McCormack reveals how such imagery has come to influence today’s sexual politics, gender roles, misogyny, and racial attitudes, and she also gives credit to the women artists (including 17th-century Italian painter Elisabbeta Sirani, and contemporaries Beyoncé and artist Kara Walker) who’ve challenged these perceptions by celebrating female sexuality, pleasure, and power. This eye-opening work will leave readers with plenty to ponder..”