Gendering Landscape Art

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; Issues in Art History Ser., 2001. x, 230 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Essays exploring artists' use of gender to understand and interpret the landscape. "While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation. This book is the first sustained attempt to fill this gap in art history. Using approaches informed by cultural studies, feminism, and psychoanalysis, this collection of essays charts the ways in which artists from the late eighteenth century to the present have used notions of femininity and masculinity to understand and interpret the landscape and how it is represented. Contributors offer fresh insights into gender in the work of well-known artists such as Monet and C zanne. They also focus on less familiar examples of landscape art over the past two centuries, from the public displays of monumental landscapes in late-eighteenth-century London to environmental art projects in present-day New York. / Steven Adams is principal lecturer in critical and cultural studies at the University of Hertfordshire. Anna Gruetzner Robins is lecturer in the history of art at the University of Reading." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Signs of Recovery: Landscape Painting and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France, by Steven Adams; Technique and Gender: Landscape, Ideology and the Art of Monet in the 1890s, by Anthea Callen; The Marketing of Helen Allingham: The English Cottage and National Identity, by Anne Helmreich; In the Bleaching Fields: Gender, Landscape and Modernity in the Netherlands 1880-1929, by Jane Beckett; Landscape, Space and Gender: Their Role in the Construction of Female Identity in Newly Independent Ireland, by S ghle Bhreathnach-Lynch; Soviet Superwoman in the Landscape of Liberty: Aleksandr Deineka's Razdole, 1944, by Pat Simpson; Landscape, Masculinity and Interior Space Between the Wars, by David Peters Corbett; C zanne's Maternal Landscape and Its Gender, by Paul Smith; Robert Smithson's Technological Sublime: Alterities and the 'Female Earth', by Caroline A. Jones; Gender in Perspective: The King and Queen's Visit to the Panorama in 1793, by Denise Blake Oleksijczuk; 'Ain't Going Nowhere': Richard Long: Global Explorer, by Anna Gruetzner Robins; Trash: Public Art by The Garbage Girls, by Jo Anna Isaak. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.