Gendering landscape art / edited by Steven Adams & Anna Gruetzner Robins.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation. This book is the first sustained attempt to fill this gap in art history.

Using approaches informed by cultural studies, feminism, and psychoanalysis, this collection of essays charts the ways in which artists from the late eighteenth century to the present have used notions of femininity and masculinity to understand and interpret the landscape and how it is represented.

Various chapters in this volume offer new insights into how issues of gender have impacted on the work of well-known artists such as Monet and Cézanne. Other pieces focus on less familiar examples of landscape art over the past two centuries, from the public displays of monumental landscapes in late-eighteenth-century London, to environmental art projects in present-day New York.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. vii)
• List of contributors (p. ix)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• 2 Signs of recovery: landscape painting and masculinity in nineteenth-century France (p. 13)
• 3 Technique and gender: landscape, ideology and the art of Monet in the 1890s (p. 26)
• 4 The marketing of Helen Allingham: the English cottage and national identity (p. 45)
• 5 In the bleaching fields: gender, landscape and modernity in The Netherlands 1880-1920 (p. 61)
• 6 Landscape, space and gender: their role in the construction of female identity in newly independent Ireland (p. 76)
• 7 Soviet superwoman in the landscape of liberty: Aleksandr Deineka's Razdol'e, 1944 (p. 87)
• 8 Landscape, masculinity and interior space between the wars (p. 102)
• 9 Cezanne's maternal landscape and its gender (p. 116)
• 10 Robert Smithson's technological sublime: alterities and the 'female earth' (p. 133)
• 11 Gender in perspective: the king and queen's visit to the Panorama in 1793 (p. 146)
• 12 'Ain't Going Nowhere': Richard Long: global explorer (p. 162)
• 13 Trash: public art by the Garbage Girls (p. 173)
• Select bibliography (p. 186)
• Notes (p. 189)
• Index (p. 227)

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