Battle of the sexes : Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo / editor, Felix Krämer.

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  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany : Städel Museum ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Prestel, [2016]
  • ©2016
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335 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

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    The exhibition "Battle of the Sexes: Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo" will shed light on the artistic investigation of gender roles from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The traditional definition of male and female as active/passive, rational/emotional, culture/nature was heavily debated in modern art: many artists presented their viewers with overstated gender characteristics and cemented stereotypical role models in their works. Others challenged established clichés and endeavoured to subvert them with strategies such as irony, exaggeration, masquerade and blending. Featuring a selection of some 150 works of painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography and film, the large-scale exhibition project aims to single out the especially concise artistic positions and open up a dialogue between them. -- Provided by publisher.
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 24, 2016-March 19, 2017.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-333).
    Time and place of event
    Exhibition, 'Battle of the Sexes: Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo' : November 24, 2016-March 19, 2017, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, European Union.
    Language note
    Text in English, with translations from the German.
    Contents
    • Words of greeting / Helmut Müller
    • Foreword / Philipp Demandt
    • Battle of the sexes : an approximation / the curators Felicity Korn and Felix Krämer in conversation with Rose-Maria Gropp
    • The body as image : art as theatre of the sexes / Andreas Beyer
    • Men's fears and women's desires : the battle of the sexes from 1850 to 1950 / Ute Frevert
    • Adam and Eve / Katharina Ferus
    • Under the spell of the sphinx : Salome and her sisters in the art of the late nineteenth century / Daniel Zamani
    • Carnal logic : Franz von Stuck / Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
    • Deadly seduction : the image of the femme fatale around 1900 / Melanie Ulz
    • Coitus with octopus : Félicien Rops and the presentation of sexuality around 1900 / Nele Putz
    • Jeanne Mammen / Katharina Ferus
    • The shock of the real / Ingo Borges
    • Whore or saint? The image of women in the works of Edvard Munch / Elena Schroll
    • Lust murder and prostitution / Anne Vieth
    • Role model in flux : man and woman in the arts of the Weimar Republic / Miriam Halwani
    • Lee Miller : "I'd rather take a picture than be one" / Kristina Lemke
    • Under the sign of the androgyne : sexuality and gender in surrealist art / Daniel Zamani
    • Beauty and the beast : the battle of the sexes in cinema between 1895 and 1945 / Svetlana Svyatskaya
    • Chronology / Daniela Leykam.
    Place name(s)
    • Germany Hesse Frankfurt am Main.
    • Germany Bavaria Munich.
    • United Kingdom England London.
    • United States New York New York.
    ISBN
    • 9783791355733 ((trade edition, English))
    • 3791355732 ((trade edition, English))
    • 9783941399686 ((museum edition, English))
    • 3941399683 ((museum edition, English))
    • 9783941399679
    • 3941399675
    LCCN
    2017302157
    OCLC
    946482272
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