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The masculine masquerade : masculinity and representation.
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ISBN: 0262161540 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press

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Performing "nation" : gender politics in literature, theater, and the visual arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
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ISBN: 9789004170193 9004170197 9786612399763 1282399764 9047443624 9789047443629 9781282399761 6612399767 Year: 2008 Volume: 91 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the changing constructs of masculinities and femininities in China and Japan from the early modern up to the 1930's. Chapters focus on the dynamism that links the remodeling of traditional arts and media to the political and cultural power relations between China, Japan, and the Western world. A true tribute to multidisciplinary studies.


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Blick-Wechsel : Konstruktionen von Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte.
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ISBN: 3496004711 Year: 1989 Publisher: Berlin Reimer


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Ficciones de género : artes, cuerpos y masculinidades
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ISBN: 6076281812 9786076281819 Year: 2017 Publisher: México, D.F. : El Colegio de México, Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer,


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Ashcan art, whiteness, and the unspectacular man
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ISBN: 1501371819 1501325787 1501325760 9781501325762 9781501325779 1501325779 9781501325755 1501325752 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York

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Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters - Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle -f aced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition to popular, political, and commercial cultures. They did so by repeatedly positioning white male bodies as having no cleverness, no moral authority, no style, and no particular charisma, crafting with consistency an unspectacular man. This was an attempt, both radical and deeply insidious, to make the white male body stand outside visual systems of knowledge, to resist the disciplining powers of commercial capitalism, and to simply be with no justification or rationale. Ashcan artists reconfigured urban masculinity for national audiences and reimagined the possibility and privilege of the unremarkable white, male body thus shaping dialogues about modernity, gender, and race that shifted visual culture in the United States.


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Hollow men
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ISBN: 0823252175 0823252183 082325285X 0823251756 0823251748 0823251918 9780823252855 9780823251742 9780823251919 9780823252183 9780823251759 9780823251742 9780823251919 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

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This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about self-presentation, ultimately contributing to a new awareness of representation as representation. Hollow Men shows that the Renaissance questioning of “interiority” derived from a visual ideal, the monument that was the basis of teachings about imitation. In fact, the decline of exemplary pedagogy and the emergence of modern masculine subjectivity were well underway in the mid–fifteenth century, and these changes were hastened by the rapid development of the printed image.

Male Trouble : A Crisis in Representation
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ISBN: 0500017654 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson


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Art in the era of Alexander the Great : paradigms of Manhood and their cultural traditions
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ISBN: 9780521769044 0521769043 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"In this book, Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in Macedonia during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period, which coincides with the reigns of Philip II, his famous son Alexander the Great, and their immediate successors. Although inspired by traditional Greek themes and ideals, this body of artwork articulated specifically Macedonian aspirations. Cohen focuses on three key "masculine" themes - warfare, hunting, and abduction of women - exploring their visual and conceptual interconnections. She demonstrates their preoccupation with the visual celebration of violence and studies the analogies they draw among the ideological categories of "enemy," "animal," and "woman." Simultaneously historical and thematic, Cohen's text is structured around select paintings and mosaics from northern Greek sites, such as Pella and Vergina, and from both secular and funerary contexts. She also examines monuments from other ancient contexts and in other media to illuminate specific questions of style, theme, and meaning"--Provided by publisher. "Simultaneously historical and thematic, this book studies an important period in Greek art, the late Classical and earely Hellenistic, especially the reigns of Philip II, his famous son Alexander the Great, and their successors. It focuses on the three traditionally "masculine" themes of warfare, hunting, and the abduction of women. All three show a preoccupation with the pictorial celebration of violence and draw analogies among the ideological categories "enemy," "animal," and "women." The book explores the ways in which masculine and feminine identities were usually constructed and communicated"--Provided by publisher.


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Ecce Homo : The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
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ISBN: 1283362511 9786613362513 0226074714 9780226074719 9781283362511 9780226074696 0226074692 9780226074702 0226074706 6613362514 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines-including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory-Ecce Homo explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, Kent L. Brintnall also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men's bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, he analyzes the way narratives of Christ's death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through stimulating readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, Brintnall delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.

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