Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Culture, 1840-1900 Contributor(s): Kern, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814746861 ISBN-13: 9780814746868 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1996 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Portraits - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Subjects & Themes - Human Figure |
Dewey: 757.094 |
LCCN: 95052336 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.22 lbs) 216 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Stephen Kern has discovered in Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist art a recurring pattern for arranging the sexes: a profiled man gazing at a woman who looks away from him and toward the viewer, while she ponders an apparent offer. Kern draws on such images to challenge the claim of some feminist critics and historians that gazing men monopolize subjectivity and turn women into sex objects. So intent are these writers on viewing women as victims, who in fact reveal a commanding subjectivity. Compared with the eyes of men, women's eyes are more visible, consider more varied thoughts, and convey more profound, if not more intense, emotions. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kern, Stephen: - Stephen Kern is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 and The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns. |