TY  - GEN
T1  - Visualizing the nation : gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France
A1  - Landes, Joan B., 1946-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn603889968
AB  - Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways.
OP  - 254
CN  - N6846 .L344 2001
SN  - 9781501727535
SN  - 1501727532
SN  - 080143811X
SN  - 9780801438110
SN  - 0801488486
SN  - 9780801488481
KW  - Allégorie
KW  - France : History : Revolution, 1789-1799 : Art and the revolution.
KW  - Art, French : 18th century.
KW  - Art : Political aspects : France.
KW  - Nationalism and art : France.
KW  - Sex role in art.
KW  - Allegories.
KW  - Human body : Symbolic aspects : France : History : 18th century.
KW  - Art, French.
KW  - Art français.
KW  - Art : Aspect politique : France.
KW  - Nationalisme et art : France.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe dans l'art.
KW  - Allégories.
KW  - Corps humain : Aspect symbolique : France : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - France : Histoire : 1789-1799 (Révolution) : Art et révolution.
KW  - Art français : 18e siècle.
KW  - allegory (artistic device)
KW  - allegories (literary works)
KW  - 15.70 history of Europe.
KW  - Allegories
KW  - Art, French
KW  - Art : Political aspects
KW  - Human body : Symbolic aspects
KW  - Nationalism and art
KW  - Sex role in art
KW  - France
KW  - Druckgrafik
KW  - Französische Revolution : Motiv
KW  - Frau : Motiv
KW  - Frau
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Nationalismus
KW  - Politik
KW  - Tugend : Motiv
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Revolution
KW  - Französische Revolution
KW  - Nation
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis.
KW  - Franse Revolutie.
KW  - Nationalisme.
KW  - Sekserol.
KW  - Kunst.
KW  - Gender roles
KW  - Human body : Symbolic aspects : France.
KW  - Frau <Motiv>
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Art
KW  - History
ER  -