386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Part I: Violence and Virtue in Poussin's Representations of Women, Part II: Poussin's Women-Cultural and Social Frames, Part III. Paintings and Drawings, 1. Predators, 2. The Lustful-Triumphant, Impulsive, Spying, Conquered, 3. Lovers-Genuine, Controlling, Unrequited, Jealous, 4. Killers, Transgressors, 5. Victims I-Killed, Assaulted, 6. Victims II-Voiceless, Deceived, 7. Heroines, Great Ladies, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Troy Thomas is Associate Professor of Humanities and Art History at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. His publications include a book, Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity (2016), and two recent articles, William Blake and Dead Man, Adaptation and Poussin, Gombauld, and the Creation of Diana and Endymion, Art History.
