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Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918

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  1. Georgina Williams

    1. Winchester, United Kingdom

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  • Examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain during the decade 1908-1918
  • Assesses the aesthetics related to suffrage, the First World War, advertising and art movements
  • Traces the genealogy of recurring motifs, including William Hogarth's line of beauty, to contemporary visual culture

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Women in the Frame

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Reshaping of Society and the Rise of the Avant-Gardes

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 17-44

  4. Inside and Outside the Frame: The Female Figure as Subject and Artist

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 45-76

  5. The Politics of Aesthetics and the Woman Question

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 77-105

  6. From Presence to Absence: Exploiting Female Sexuality in Visual Culture

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 107-134

  7. A Visual Genealogy: Tracing the Threads as Nodes Within a Network

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 135-161

  8. Women in the Frame: To Be Concluded

    • Georgina Williams
    Pages 163-177

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-189
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About this book

This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and constructs as objects contained within, both literal and metaphorical. In this way visual genealogical threads including the female figure as an ideal and William Hogarth’s 'line of beauty' are explored, and their legacies assessed and followed through into the twenty-first century. Georgina Williams contributes to debates surrounding the deliberate and inadvertent dismissal of women’s roles throughout history, through literature and imagery. This book also considers how absence of a pictorial manifestation of the female form in visual culture can be as important as her presence.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Winchester, United Kingdom

    Georgina Williams

About the author

Georgina Williams is a writer and artist, and author of Propaganda and Hogarth’s Line of Beauty in the First World War (Palgrave, 2016). Her ongoing research considers how William Hogarth’s line of beauty can be utilised as a mechanism for re-evaluating artworks. She has exhibited paintings and photography, including a continuing photographic project entitled Industrialia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918

  • Authors: Georgina Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75729-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75728-5Published: 23 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09311-2Published: 04 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75729-2Published: 11 April 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Women's Studies, Social History, History of Modern Europe, Cultural History

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