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Flowers and Towers: Politics of Identity in the Art of the American New Woman

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By (author): Nira Tessler

This book explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It begins with a discussion of the symbolic significance of the flower in canonical texts such as the Song of Songs, in which the female lover is likened to a lily among the thorns, and to an enclosed garden. These allegorical images permeated into Christian iconography, attaining various expressions in the plastic arts from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries. The heart of the book is a discussion of the meaning of the change in representations of the flower, and at the same time the appearance of amazing images of masculine skyscrapers, in the works of avant-garde American women artists during the 1920s and 30s, in three hubs of Modernist art: New York, California, and Mexico. Tessler explains how modernist artists of various fields of art such as Glaspell, Stettheimer, OKeeffe, Pelton, Cunningham, Mather, Modotti and Kahlo were aware of the religious symbolism of the flower in Judaism and Christianity, and turned it into an emblem of the new modern woman with her own views of the world. Flowers and Towers concludes by presenting the works of contemporary feminist American artists such as Chicago and Schapiro, who pay tribute to those same Modernist artists by creating a new and daring image of the flower and using feminine materials and techniques that link them, as it were, to their spiritual mothers. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443882705

About Nira Tessler

Dr Nira Tessler is a Lecturer on the History of Art and Design at various Israeli academic institutions mainly at Talpiot Academic College for Education. She specializes in international modern art Israeli art and design. Her research focuses on visual culture and the New Woman art of the first decades of the twentieth century from sociological gender and psychological perspectives within the discourse on the politics of identity.

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