Dealing With Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision

Leading scholars offer new readings of Degas' representations of the family, prostitution, city life and leisure in which looking at women is shown to be a complex and ambiguous process. One major topic of the book is the encounter between feminism and art history. Having put Ôimages of women' on the agenda of cultural analysis, feminist interventions in the theory and analysis of representation have created a diverse and intricate field of interpretation which now supersedes that formulation. These essays challenge art history to confront issues of spectatorship, the interface of class and gender, identification and the politics of vision. This illustrated collection is thus a major contribution to debates on representation and sexuality.Richard Kendall is the author of 'Dealing With Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision' with ISBN 9780876636282 and ISBN 0876636288.