| Description |
1 online resource (x, 185 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction The Girl in Contemporary Art / Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman -- Through the Looking-Glass with Heart-Shaped Sunglasses : Searching for Alice and Lolita in Contemporary Representations of Girls / Lori Waxman -- Dial 'P' for Panties : Narrative Photography in the 1990s (with a New Afterword by the Author) / Lucy Soutter -- Girlish Games : Playfulness and 'Drawingness' in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning / Harriet Riches -- Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls / Maud Lavin -- Haunted : Writing with the Girl / Taru Elfving -- Oh Mother Where Art Thou? Sue de Beer's Hysterical Orphan Girls / Kate Random -- Love Mi-girl, Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA : A Fairy Tale in Blue / Carol Mavor -- Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas : Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene / Catherine Grant. |
| Summary |
Essays address a variety of themes including narcissism, nostalgia, post-feminism, and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why women artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls -- and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Girls in art.
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Girls in art. |
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Women artists.
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Women artists. |
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Themes, motives. |
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themese, motives.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000 - 2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Grant, Catherine, 1964-
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Waxman, Lori.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613162861 |
| ISBN |
9781841505282 (electronic book) |
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1841505285 (electronic book) |
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9781841503486 |
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1841503487 |
| Standard No. |
9786613162861 |
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