Edith Wharton And The Visual Arts
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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
Author | : Emily J. Orlando |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0817315373 |
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This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.