IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY                    

Term I, 2008-2009                                                                 Cris Hassold

 

O. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: NINETEENTH CENTURY IMAGES OF WOMEN

 

Assigned Readings:

 

TEXT:    Pollock, Griselda,  Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London and

                        New York: Routledge, 1988/1989.       

                        Chapter 6," Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings," 120-154      

                        [RESERVE- FROM TAMPA LIBRARY: N72 F45 P64 1988]

                        [see #4: The Woman Viewed]

 

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Suggested Readings: CHOOSE ONE OF THESE AND SIGN IN ON LEFT SIDE OF PAGE

 

General:

 ________Dijkstra, Bram, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture, New

                        York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 D55 1986]  Pick a chapter that interests you.

 

________Ganz, Arthur, "Transformations of the Child Temptress: (8) Mélisande, Salomé, Lulu," Opera Quarterly,                                     Winter 1987-88, 12-20. (8 pages)

                        [XEROX ORDERED ILL 8 Aug. 1994]

 

________Gilman, Sander L., Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness, 

                    Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985

                        [RESERVE--NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF 323 C5 G55 1985]

                        Chapter 1, "Male Stereotypes of Female Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, 37-58. (21 pages)

 

            Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual 

                    XXXVIII New York:    Newsweek, 1972.

                        [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

                        OPEN HOURS: 1-5 p.m. Wed- Fri, and by appointment.

 

________Pierrot, Jean, The Decadent Imagination 1880-1900, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago 

                    Press, 1981.

                        Chapter 4, "The Unconscious and Sexuality," 119-143. (24 pages)

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PQ 298 P513 1981]

           

________Charles Bernheimer, "Huysmans: Writing Against (Female) Nature," 374-386 (12 pages) in Suleiman, 

         Susan Rubin, editor, (1985/86) The Female Body in Western Culture, Cambridge, 

                  Massachusetts:Harvard UP.

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 F46 1986]

 

________Walkowitz, Judith, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, 

                    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

                        "Introduction," 1-13; Chapter 7: "Jack the Ripper," 191-228. (37 pages)

                        [RESERVE- FROM TAMPA LIBRARY:  HQ 72 G7 W33 1992]

 

[see # 1: Woman as Nature]

 

________Garb, Tamar, "Renoir and the Natural Woman," 295-311 in Norma Broude and Mary D. Gerrard, 

                    The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins Icon Edition, 

                    1992. (16 pages)

                        [RESERVE- FROM TAMPA LIBRARY:N72 F45 E96 1992]

 

________Barbara Erlich White, "Renoir's Sensuous Women," 167-181, (14 pages) in Hess and Nochlin 

                    (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual XXXVIII, 

          New York: Newsweek, 1972.

                        [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

 

[Chapter #5: The Woman at Work]

 

________Lipton, Eunice, Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life, Berkeley/ Los 

                    Angeles/London, University of California Press, 1986

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 6853 D33 L57 1987]

 

[see #8: The Fatal Woman]

 

________Alessandra Comini, "Vampires, Virgins and Voyeurs in Imperial Vienna, 207-221 (14 pages)in Hess 

                    and Nochlin (editors), Women as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970,Art News Annual 

                    XXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972. 

                        [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

 

________Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth 

                    Century, v. 2 Sexchanges, New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PR 116 G5 1988 V.2]

                        Chapter 1," Heart of Darkness: The Agon of the Femme Fatale," 3-46.(43 pages)

 

________Kingsbury, Martha, "The Femme Fatale and Her Sisters," 183-205, (22 pages) in Hess and Nochlin

                        [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

 

[see # 9: The Phallic Woman]

 

________Jacobus, Mary, Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism,

                        New York, Columbia University Press, 1986

                        Section III, Chapter 2, "Judith, Holofernes, and the Phallic Woman," 110-136. (26 pages)

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 98 W64 J3 1986]

  

******************  1. THERE FOR THE PLUCKING: RIPE FRUIT  ********************************

 

            Barbara Erlich White, "Renoir's Sensuous Women," 167-181, (14 pages) in Hess and Nochlin,

                        [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

 

            Garb, Tamar, "Renoir and the Natural Woman," 295-311 (16 pages) in Norma Broude and Mary 

          D. Gerrard, The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins 

                    Icon Edition, 1992.

                        [TAMPA LIBRARY: N72 F45 E96 1992]

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: NINETEENTH CENTURY IMAGES OF WOMEN

AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST

 

                        1867   LISE WITH SUNSHADE

                        1874   THE LOGE

                        1875   THE FIRST OUTING

                        1874   THE DANCER

                        1876   THE GIRL WITH A WATERING CAN

                        1876   ANNA                    

                        1881   BLOND BATHER

  

*****************************  2. THE FALLEN WOMAN  ****************************************

 

WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT (1827-1910) ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE

 

                        1851   THE HIRELING SHEPHERD

                        1852   THE AWAKENING CONSCIENCE

 

GUSTAVE COURBET

                        1856   WOMEN ON THE BANKS OF THE SEINE 

 

3. THE EXOTIC WOMAN: MALE POSSESSIONS

 

JEAN AUGUSTE INGRES (1780-1867) NEO-CLASSICAL

 

                        1814    LARGE ODALISQUE       

                        ____    ODALISQUE WITH SLAVE

                        1863    TURKISH BATH

 

************  4. THE WOMAN VIEWED: WOMAN AS SIGN, WOMAN AS SPECTACLE  ******************

 

TEXT-      Pollock, Griselda, Chapter 6," Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings," 120-154, (34 pages) in 

                    Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London and New York: 

                    Routledge, 1988/1989.             

                        [also TAMPA LIBRARY: N72 F45 P64 1988]

 

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE

 

                        1859    BOCCA BACCIATA  (LIPS THAT HAVE BEEN KISSED)

                        1863    BEATA BEATRIX

                        1867    LADY LILITH

                        1872    LADY LILITH

                        1864-68 VENUS VERTICORDIA

                        1877    ASTARTE SYRIACA

 

 ******************************** 5. THE WOMAN AT WORK ************************************* 

 

             Lipton, Eunice, Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life, Berkeley/ Los 

                    Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1986. Chapter 5.

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 6853 D33 L57 1987]  

 

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: NINETEENTH CENTURY IMAGES OF WOMEN

EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917) FRENCH REALIST

 

                        1875                CAFÉ CONCERT: THE SONG OF THE DOG

                        1876                CAFÉ CONCERT AT "LES AMBASSADEURS"

                        1876-7             CAFÉ CONCERT

                        1878                SINGER WITH GLOVE

                        1879                MISS LALA AT THE CIRQUE FERNANDO

                        1880                AT THE THEATER

                        1884                CAFÉ SINGER IN GREEN

                        1872                DANCE FOYER AT THE OPERA

                        1874                DANCING CLASS/ DETAIL: GIRL LISTENING PENSIVELY

                        1874                REHEARSAL OF THE BALLET ON STAGE

                        ----                   A 'PAS BATTU'

                        1881                THE CURTAIN 

                        1882               THE MILLINERY SHOP

                        1885               AT THE MILLINERS

 

EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883) FRENCH REALIST

 

                        1878                CAFÉ CONCERT SINGER

                        1862                THE STREET SINGER

                        1878                THE BEER WAITRESS

                        1878                AT THE CAFÉ

                        1878                AT THE CAFÉ

                        1881-3             BAR AT THE FOLLIES BERGÈRES

                        1863               OLYMPIA   LOVE FOR SALE

                        1877                NANA   

 

*********  6. LESBIAN LOVERS, SIRENS, SERPENTS, MERMAIDS  ********************

           

GUSTAVE COURBET                                        1866               THE AWAKENING

                                                                        1866               SLEEP

 

CORBINEAU                                                 1895               THE FRIENDS

JOSEPH GRANIÉ                                          1900               THE KISS

 

GUSTAVE KLIMT                                              1917               THE FRIENDS 

 

JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE                     1900                THE MERMAID

 

GUSTAVE KLIMT                                           1889               THE SIRENS

                                                                          1904               THE WATER SERPENTS I

                                                                           1904               THE WATER SERPENTS II

                                             

 

 

           

*********************************  7. MADWOMEN: VICTIMS OR MENACES  *********************

 

MILLAIS ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE

                         1851              OPHELIA

 

ARTHUR HUGHES (1832-1915) ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE

                         1852               OPHELIA/ DETAILS

 

EUGENE DELACROIX (1798-1860) FRENCH ROMANTIC

 

                        1862               MEDEA

 

WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT (1827-1910) ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE

 

                        1866              ISABELLA AND THE POT OF BASIL

                        1886-1905      LADY OF SHALOTT

 END TRAY ONE+++++++++++++++++++++ END TRAY ONE+++++++++++++++++++++ END TRAY ONE

**************************  8. DREAD, DESIRE AND POWER: THE FATAL WOMAN  ****************

 

Alessandra Comini, "Vampires, Virgins and Voyeurs in Imperial Vienna, 207-221, (14 pages) in Hess and 

            Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art 1730-1970, Art News Annual

             XXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972.

            [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

 

Martha Kingsbury, "The Female Fatale and Her Sisters," in Hess and Nochlin, 183-205. (22 pages)

            [RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1972]

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth 

        Century, Vol. 2 Sexchanges, New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1988.

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PR 116 G5 1988, v.2]

            Chapter 1, "Heart of Darkness: The Agon of the Femme Fatale, 3-46. (43 pages)

  

FRANZ VON STUCK (1863-1928) GERMAN SYMBOLIST

                         ____               EVE

                        1893               SIN

                        1927               JUDITH

                  1906              SALOME

 

KHNOPFF         N.D.                SHAME

GUSTAVE MOREAU (1826-1898)  FRENCH SYMBOLIST

 

                        1864               OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX

                        COMPARE WITH--INGRES: OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX

                        COMPARE WITH --FERNAND KHNOPFF: 1896 ART (THE CARESSES OR THE SPHINX)

                        1865            THRACIAN GIRL WITH HEAD OF ORPHEUS

                        1875               SALOME DANCING BEFORE HEROD

                        1876               THE APPARITION/ DETAIL

 

AUBREY BEARDSLEY (1872-1897) ENGLISH DECADENT

 

                        1893 SALOME [ILLUSTRATIONS FOR OSCAR WILDE'S PLAY]

                                    1. THE WOMAN IN THE MOON (FRONTISPIECE)

                                    6. THE PEACOCK SKIRT

                                    8. JOHN AND SALOME

                                    9.  A PLATONIC LAMENT

                        **         10. ENTER HERODIAS

                                    11. THE EYES OF HEROD

                                    13. THE BELLY DANCE

                                    16. THE DANCER'S REWARD

                                    17. THE CLIMAX

 

LEVY-DHRUMER (1865-1953) SYMBOLIST

                    1869                SALOME EMBRACING THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

 

JEAN DELVILLE (1867-1951) BELGIAN DECADENT [ROSE+CROIX]

 

                        1887               TRISTRAM AND ISEULT

                        1891               THE IDOL OF PERVERSITY

                        1893               THE END OF A REIGN

                        1893               ORPHEUS

 

CARLOS SCHWABE (1866-1926)

 

                        1895               DEATH AND THE GRAVE DIGGER

 

******************************  9. THE PHALLIC WOMAN  *****************************************

             Jacobus, Mary, Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, New York, Columbia University

          Press, 1986 Section III, Chapter 2, "Judith, Holofernes, and the Phallic Woman," 110-136. 

                   (26 pages)

                        [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 98 W64 J3 1986]   

  

GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918) AUSTRIAN DECADENT

 

                        1901               JUDITH I

                        1909               JUDITH II

 

**************************************  10. SEXUALITY AND ANGST  ********************************

 

EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944) NORWEGIAN SYMBOLIST

 

                        1893               PUBERTY

                        1893               THE CRY

                        1895               THE MADONNA

                        1894               ASHES

                        1895               WOMAN IN THREE STAGES OF LIFE

                        1895               JEALOUSY

                        1893               THE VAMPIRE

                        1896                THE VAMPIRE