A Feminist Picture Atlas: Images of Lactation in Medieval and Early Modern Art.
The article focuses on art historian Aby Warburg concept of pathos formula to investigate the afterlife of images of lactation in medieval and early modern visual culture and investigations of cross-cultural parallels. It mentions how the lactating breast functions as a sign of desire in different i...
| Publicado en: | Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 118 - 133 |
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University of Chicago Press
Fall2018
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on art historian Aby Warburg concept of pathos formula to investigate the afterlife of images of lactation in medieval and early modern visual culture and investigations of cross-cultural parallels. It mentions how the lactating breast functions as a sign of desire in different iconographic contexts, building on prior work by feminist art historians and patriarchal kinship. It also mentions deep emotions and held in recurring patterns, gestures, and forms in images. |
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