The Wollstonecraft Statue at Newington Green (Review)
The Wollstonecraft Statue at Newington Green reifies in many ways the unresolved painful issue of disempowerment with which the history of the female nude is im-bued, making it all but impossible to see it in any other way. This representation is in spite of the driving force of the statue’s campaig...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148569 |
| Summary: | The Wollstonecraft Statue at Newington Green reifies in many ways the unresolved painful issue of disempowerment with which the history of the female nude is im-bued, making it all but impossible to see it in any other way. This representation is in spite of the driving force of the statue’s campaign, which is stated in the artist Maggi Ham-bling’s description of its meaning and fortified by the historical revisionist approaches of feminist art that interrogate Kenneth Clark’s The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art (1956)—such as work produced by Griselda Pollock and Lynda Nead. |
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