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3. Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave
Joy S. Kasson
Description: Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
No nineteenth-century artwork tells us more about the cultural construction of gender than Hiram Powers’ The Greek Slave of 1844 (fig. 16). This life-sized standing nude woman...
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Joy S. Kasson
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1990 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.46-72
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31602
Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryWomen and gender in art--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--Classical influencesPowers, Hiram, 1805-1873. Greek slaveGreece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829Exoticism in art

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3. Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave