Painting the Difference: Sex and Spectator in Modern Art Hardcover - 2006
by Charles Harrison
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The picture plane of a painting creates boundaries and perspectives. It governs the relationship of daubs of pigment on a canvas to reality, allowing the viewer to connect with the imagined world of a work of art. Charles Harrison's latest endeavor, Painting the Difference, explores the role of the picture plane in modern painting and the relationships it creates among the artist, the subject, and the spectator. One of the most respected teachers and theorists of modern art, Harrison here offers a bold interpretation of the Modernist canon that uncovers the significance of gender to the functioning of the picture plane. Arguing that the representation of women in art was crucial to the character of modernity, Harrison traces the history of female subjects as they began to gaze out of the picture to confront and engage their viewers. Combining sweeping conceptual history with telling investigations into the details of particular paintings, Painting the Difference deciphers the implications of sexual difference for the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. Harrison shows how artists, reflecting the underlying anxieties of the time about gender, used female subjects' gazes both to create a sexualized relationship between these subjects and their viewers and to simultaneously question that relationship. In considering works by artists such as Renoir, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, as well as Rothko, Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and many more, Harrison incorporates elements of cultural criticism and social history into his argument. Generous color illustrations permit the reader to test Harrison's claims against the works on which they are based. Rich with detail and compelling analysis, Painting the Difference offers cutting-edge interpretation grounded in the reality of magnificent works of art.
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- Title Painting the Difference: Sex and Spectator in Modern Art
- Author Charles Harrison
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date January 2, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226317977 / 0226317978
- Weight 3.34 lbs (1.51 kg)
- Dimensions 11.26 x 8.8 x 1.14 in (28.60 x 22.35 x 2.90 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gender identity in art, Sex role in art
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004005367
- Dewey Decimal Code 759.06
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