CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Sayin, Derya |
|---|---|
| Title | Not Your Object of Desire: Reclaiming Women's Role in Constructing the Pre-Raphaelite Woman |
| Summary | This thesis centres around the Pre-Raphaelite art movement and investigates the role of women artists in constructing the visual archetype of the Pre-Raphaelite Woman. By focusing on four women artists, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (1829 – 1862), Joanna Mary Boyce (1831 – 1861), Lucy Madox Brown (1843 – 1894) and Marie Spartali Stillman (1844 – 1927), I argue that reclaiming the roles of women in creating this archetype enables the Pre-Raphaelite Woman to escape the image of an overly eroticised “sensual creature” which is what it is known as in mainstream Western art history. |
| Supervisor | Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/sayin_derya.pdf |
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