{"product_id":"masculinities-in-victorian-painting-9781859281086","title":"Masculinities in Victorian Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph A. Kestner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Human Figure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful images from the work of dozens of Victorian artists - from Leighton, Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Alma-Tadema to Dicksee, Pettie, Watts, Woodville and Tuke to name a few - are used to illustrate the 5 key paradigms of masculinity: the classical hero, the gallant knight, the challenged paterfamilias, the valiant soldier and the male nude. Aspects of 20th-century theory such as rescue compulsion, male sexuality, the male gaze and racial ideas are also considered. The author concludes that maleness was, and is, learned and 19th-century ideas still influence the construction of manhood today; that social institutions are influenced by, and themselves use, artistic representation; that artistic images strongly influence ideas of gender; and that multi-disciplinary cultural study is the best way to examine the formation of gender ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46932015054999,"sku":"9781859281086","price":10902.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781859281086.webp?v=1771617998","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/masculinities-in-victorian-painting-9781859281086","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}