Facing Beauty

Painted Women and Cosmetic Art

Aileen Ribeiro

10/2011
RIBEIRO, AILEEN.

Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art. London 2011. 4to. 256 S. mit 150 (100 farb.) Abb., Ppbd.

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This thought-provoking book discusses the shifting perceptions of female beauty, concentrating on the period from about 1540 to 1940. Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in art and life, especially with regard to women's bodies and faces. "Facing Beauty" examines concepts of female beauty in terms of the ideal and the real, investigating paradigms of beauty as represented in art and literature and how beauty has been enhanced by cosmetics and hairstyles. Aileen Ribeiro is Professor Emeritus in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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19.Jh.-Portrait  Alt-Portrait  Ikono-Portrait  Kunst 20. Jahrhundert