Representation Of Women Through Art
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Women play a very important role in the creation of art from the seventeenth century to the present twentieth century. Women were seen in many different ways during these centuries ranging from sex symbols all the way to lovable mothers and wives. Many artists brought about this representation o ....
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.... by Linda Nochlin, and "Like an Artist" by Janis Bergman-Carton.
First, the article "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter talks mainly about the sexual proposition of a man towards a woman during the seventeenth century. The painting "The Proposition" represents an indecent proposal towards a woman and her reaction to this indecent proposal. During this century, there was a resurgence of prostitution throughout European countries. The women rep ....
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