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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts PDF Author: Emily J. Orlando
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817315373
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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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.