Mara Witzling
Biographic Data
| ID | 2277141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Witzling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Witzling |
| SIGNATURE | WITZLING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quilt Language
The aesthetics of quilt making can be defined by exploring three ways in which quilts speak: through their formal qualities, their use of fabric, and their social context. The discussion here is focused primarily on nineteenth‐century America, where quilts were important historical documents that transmitted information about women and their lives that might not have been available through other means and that otherwise may well have been overloo…
Meret Oppenheim
The Beribboned Bomb
Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s.The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art addresses the former, using a thick description of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism …
Women Artists and Writers
The Gendering of Modernism
Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (im)positionings by Bridget Elliott and Jo‐Ann Wallace , London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 204 pp., 63 b. & w. illus., £15.99 Women artists and the Parisian avant‐Garde: Modernism and ‘feminine’ art, 1900 to the late 1920s , by Gill Perry , Manchester and New York: University of Manchester Press, 1995, 186 pp., 32 col. plates, 71 b. & w. illus., £16.99 Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representat…
Surrealism and Women
These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and…
Quilt Language
The aesthetics of quilt making can be defined by exploring three ways in which quilts speak: through their formal qualities, their use of fabric, and their social context. The discussion here is focused primarily on nineteenth‐century America, where quilts were important historical documents that transmitted information about women and their lives that might not have been available through other means and that otherwise may well have been overloo…
Surrealism and Women
These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and…
The Gendering of Modernism
Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (im)positionings by Bridget Elliott and Jo‐Ann Wallace , London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 204 pp., 63 b. & w. illus., £15.99 Women artists and the Parisian avant‐Garde: Modernism and ‘feminine’ art, 1900 to the late 1920s , by Gill Perry , Manchester and New York: University of Manchester Press, 1995, 186 pp., 32 col. plates, 71 b. & w. illus., £16.99 Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representat…
Women Artists and Writers
The Beribboned Bomb
Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s.The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art addresses the former, using a thick description of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism …
Meret Oppenheim
Quilt Language
The aesthetics of quilt making can be defined by exploring three ways in which quilts speak: through their formal qualities, their use of fabric, and their social context. The discussion here is focused primarily on nineteenth‐century America, where quilts were important historical documents that transmitted information about women and their lives that might not have been available through other means and that otherwise may well have been overloo…
Art (5 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Art history (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)