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Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

by M Warner (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 440
 Edition: 1st U.S. Pbk. Prtg
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 13 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 0520227336
ISBN 13: 9780520227330

Media Reviews
Why should Truth be a woman? or Nature? or Justice? or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters Western cityscapes. --Lorna Sage, Observer
Author Bio
Among Marina Warner's books are From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1995), Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1983), and Joan of Arc (California, 1999).