Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

AvConstance Classen

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The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-10-08
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415180733

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Introduction PART I Cosmology 1 On the color of angels: the sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier 2 The breath of God: sacred histories of scent PART II Gender 3 The scented womb and the seminal eye: embodying gender codes through the senses 4 Pens and needles: writing, women’s work, and feminine sensibilities PART III Aesthetics 5 Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes: crossing sensory borders in the arts 6 A feel for the world: lessons in aesthetics from the blind

'With the blend of erudition and elegance we have now come to expect, Constance Classen's The Colour of Angels does much to restore the history of the senses to its proper importance.' - Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute'It is a solid and imaginative contribution to both the history of the senses as well as to feminist scholarship from the middle ages up to the rise of modernism.' - Henry Luce, The University of Chicago