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- catalog abstract "Beauty's Body is about how Art comes to wear a feminine face in the painting, poetry, and prose of British aestheticism, and what it means that it wears that face - for art, for women, and for those who, a century later, construct theories about aesthetics and gender. The book argues that representations of femininity in aestheticist writing and works of art are not merely incidental or decorative, but play an integral part in the cultural work of aestheticism. Aestheticism's feminine figures help construct the category of "the aesthetic" and the concept of self-reflective, autonomous art that goes along with it. Visually appealing and yet inaccessible, feminine figures also provide for a new kind of relation to objects that makes possible advanced commodity culture. By looking at how femininity functions as a system of signification in Victorian aestheticism, moreover, we can see the ways in which much of our own theorizing about aesthetics unconsciously employs a similar system of signification to manage, through disavowal and evasion, its own internal contradictions.".
- catalog contributor b10233665.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Beauty's Body is about how Art comes to wear a feminine face in the painting, poetry, and prose of British aestheticism, and what it means that it wears that face - for art, for women, and for those who, a century later, construct theories about aesthetics and gender.".
- catalog description "By looking at how femininity functions as a system of signification in Victorian aestheticism, moreover, we can see the ways in which much of our own theorizing about aesthetics unconsciously employs a similar system of signification to manage, through disavowal and evasion, its own internal contradictions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Gender Ideology of the Aesthetic -- 1. She Has a Lovely Face: The Feminine and the Aesthetic -- 2. I Knew the Beauty of Her: Aestheticism, Fleshliness, and Resistance -- 3. Hidden Just Behind Those Screens: Art Objects and Commodities -- 4. A Sort of Live Picture: Woman and the Aesthetic Craze -- 5. The Girl Never Really Lived: Decadent Beauty in the 1890's.".
- catalog description "The book argues that representations of femininity in aestheticist writing and works of art are not merely incidental or decorative, but play an integral part in the cultural work of aestheticism. Aestheticism's feminine figures help construct the category of "the aesthetic" and the concept of self-reflective, autonomous art that goes along with it. Visually appealing and yet inaccessible, feminine figures also provide for a new kind of relation to objects that makes possible advanced commodity culture.".
- catalog extent "241 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804727848 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "700/.942 20".
- catalog subject "Aesthetic movement (Art) England.".
- catalog subject "Aesthetic movement (Art)".
- catalog subject "Arts, English 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Arts, English.".
- catalog subject "Arts, Modern 19th century England.".
- catalog subject "Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) England.".
- catalog subject "NX650.F45 P76 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Gender Ideology of the Aesthetic -- 1. She Has a Lovely Face: The Feminine and the Aesthetic -- 2. I Knew the Beauty of Her: Aestheticism, Fleshliness, and Resistance -- 3. Hidden Just Behind Those Screens: Art Objects and Commodities -- 4. A Sort of Live Picture: Woman and the Aesthetic Craze -- 5. The Girl Never Really Lived: Decadent Beauty in the 1890's.".
- catalog title "Beauty's body : femininity and representation in British aestheticism / Kathy Alexis Psomiades.".
- catalog type "text".