FIGURE 59

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TitleZenobia

Creator nameHosmer, Harriet Goodhue

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1859

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationTaft, Lorado. The History of American Sculpture. New York: Macmillan, 1903, 209

SubjectsSculpture, American--19th centuryQueens in art

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6. The Problematics of Female Power: Zenobia

Joy S. Kasson

Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture

Nineteenth-century spectators, male and female, read in ideal sculpture compelling narratives of gender. In a variety of female subjects they saw qualities and situations that they associated with their real-life attempts to understand woman’s nature and place in society. But did men and women interpret these sculptures in the same way? Or did their differing...

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Joy S. Kasson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.141-165

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31605&redirecttoanchor=105247

Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryWomen and gender in art--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--Classical influencesHosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Captivity narratives in art

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