Portraying Pregnancy
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2020
Summary
Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter’s pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer. Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of pregnancy through the ages and interrogates how…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911300809 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911300806 |
| Author: | Karen Hearn |
| Publisher: | Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 210mm x 15mm |
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“Exploring the often wildly inventive ways in which artists in Britain have variously sought to hide, flaunt or spoof the pregnant form in art, from medieval times to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy is as beautiful as it is surprising.”– “The Telegraph”
About The Author
Karen Hearn
Karen Hearn is an exhibition curator and a historian of British art and culture.
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