Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood
Venus Envy
Series: IMAGINES ? Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 9 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350469860
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 238x162x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 bw illus 669
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Long description:
This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. In this historical moment, 19th-century anthropometric methods, the anti-corset dress reform movement and early fitness culture were united in their goal of identifying and producing healthy, procreative female bodies. These discourses presented ancient statues of Venus - most frequently, the Venus de Milo - as the supreme visual model of a superior, fit, feminine physique. An America of such Venuses would herald the future prosperity of the "American race" by reviving the robust health and moral righteousness of the ancient Greeks.
Venuses had long been symbols of beauty, but the new situation of Venus statues as an aesthetic and moral destination for women set up a slippage between ideal sculpture and living bodies: what did it mean for a woman to embody - or to try to embody - the perfect health and beauty of an ancient statue? How were women expected to translate this model into flesh? What were the political stakes to which this vision of a nation of American Venuses was bound? Who was believed to conform to this ideal, and who was excluded from it? In taking on these questions, Franks engages with physical culture and dress-reform media, modern artwork that adapts Graeco-Roman traditions, anthropological texts, art histories of ancient Greece, film, advertising and medical reporting on women's health.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1. Divine: The Aphrodite of Knidos
Chapter 2. Corrupt: The Venus de Medici and the Venus de Milo
Chapter 3. Pristine: A Goddess in White Marble
Chapter 4. Moral: Translating the Ancient Body
Chapter 5. Natural: Venus as Dress Reformer
Chapter 6. Fit: Venus and Physical Culture
Chapter 7. Canonical: The Measure of Beauty
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy
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