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Femme Fatales, Goddesses, Angels, and Madonnas: Women in Late 19th-Century Art with Guest speaker, Professor Robert Baldwin
Femme Fatales, Goddesses, Angels, and Madonnas: Women in Late 19th-Century Art Guest speaker, Professor Robert Baldwin of CT College
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 at 10:30am
Join guest speaker Professor Robert Baldwin lecture on Femme Fatales, Goddesses, Angels, and Madonnas: Women in Late 19th-Century Art.
The 19th century saw tremendous economic, political, and social changes including challenges to traditional gender roles mounted by early feminists and socialists. This talk explores a spectrum of late 19th century images of women made largely by male artists. One approach taken by Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic Movement, and Symbolist artists developed a “feminine mystique” sanctifying women as pure mothers, Madonnas, angels, and chaste goddesses, as paragons of emotional and spiritual interiority, and as higher aesthetic beings. On the other side of this coin, many male artists produced backlash imagery demonizing women as hypersexual viragos, irresistible vampires, and deadly prostitutes.
This program is free and open to the public.
Not suitable for children. Registration required.
