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Loading... Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series)by Joseph A. Kestner
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This extensively illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful images from the work of dozens of Victorian artists - from Leighton, Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Alma-Tadema to Dicksee, Pettie, Watts, Woodville and Tuke to name a few - are used to illustrate the five key paradigms of masculinity: the classical hero, the gallant knight, the challenged paterfamilias, the valiant soldier and the male nude. Aspects of twentieth-century theory such as rescue compulsion, male sexuality, the male gaze and racial ideas are also considered.
The author concludes that maleness was, and is, learned and that nineteenth-century ideas still influence the construction of manhood in the twentieth century; that social institutions are influenced by, and themselves use, artistic representation; that artistic images strongly influence ideas of gender; and that multidisciplinary cultural study is the best way to examine the formation of gender ideologies. No library descriptions found. |
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