Feminine form between symbol and representation
Feminine form between symbol and representation

Summary/Abstract: Since the first presence of the human body in art is that of a woman, namely a female nude,I think it might not seem too hazardous to state that art history starts with the image of a woman.Female forms – transformed or exalted – were always present in the art image. For artists andgenerally speaking also for the society, the woman has represented since the oldest times "the model",or "the ideal of beauty". But as a reaction against the rigid and restrictive standards the femininebeauty ideal had imposed in art and society, the U.S.A. witnessed in the 1960s the rise of the feministmovement, one of the main art movements following the Second World War.This work is about trying to explain why the woman appears rather as a model in art historyas an artist, but also about the female artist who defied the rules.

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