Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner

Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

Marina Warner

375 pages • first pub 1985 (editions) user-added

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Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art...

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