The Visual Politics of the Female Form in 1920s Canada

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Title
The Visual Politics of the Female Form in 1920s Canada
Abstract
The author examines the images that circulated throughout the 1920s that expressed the controversies of nationhood through the bodies of women. Using these visual images, the author explores how artists used the female form in high art, magazines and feature films during this decade. She examines what political work the female form played in an era when Canada was developing its own identity as a nation state on the world stage. She asks: Did 'woman' matter to constructions of nation when nation was being articulated through modernist forms or as a modern project, and did it take particular national form as ‘Canadian’? Among the works of art that the author examines are those of such Montreal painters as John Lyman, Prudence Heward, Edwin Holgate and Anne Savage.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
York University
Place
Toronto, ON
Date
2015
# of Pages
xii-320p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Durante, Agnes. “The Visual Politics of the Female Form in 1920s Canada.” PhD dissertation, York University, 2015. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/30630.
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