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ISBN: 9781911300809 1911300806 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Paul Holberton Publishing
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Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter's pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer. Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of pregnancy through the ages and interrogates how the social mores and preoccupations of different periods affected the ways in which pregnant women were visually depicted. Exploring different religious, cultural, and historical settings, Hearn reveals how portrayals of pregnancy have changed over time and across contexts. Some portraits reinforce an "ideal" female role while others celebrate fertility or assert shock value. Eighty color images accompany Hearn's extensive and illuminating history, including painted portraits, drawings, miniatures, prints, photographs, sculpture, textiles, and objects.
Pregnancy in art --- Pregnant women --- 7.049 --- Zwangerschap --- Expectant mothers --- Gravida --- Mothers --- Pregnancy --- Women --- Iconografie ; verschillende onderwerpen --- Exhibitions --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- iconography --- pregnancy --- Great Britain --- vrouwenportretten
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ISBN: 9780226823126 9780226823133 022682313X Year: 2023 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press
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"The first full study of "birth figures," a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images' creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century in Western Europe. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy. "--
Obstetrics --- Midwifery --- Childbirth in art. --- Pregnancy in art. --- Fetus in art. --- Medical illustration --- Illustration of books --- Medicine and art --- SCIENCE / History --- ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure --- History. --- History of human medicine --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Iconography --- births --- pregnancy --- kunst en wetenschap --- book history --- scientific illustrations [images] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Western Europe
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