ebooks Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (Objects/Histories) by Mary Roberts in Arts-Photography

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Subverting stereotypical images of women; a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up; much as Annie Sprinkle; Cindy Sherman; and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be; perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up has been appropriated by women for their own empowerment since its inception more than a century ago. Pin-Up Grrrls tells the history of the pin-up from its birth; revealing how its development is intimately connected to the history of feminism. Maria Elena Buszek documents the genrersquo;s 150-year history with more than 100 illustrations; many never before published.Beginning with the pin-uprsquo;s origins in mid-nineteenth-century carte-de-visite photographs of burlesque performers; Buszek explores how female sex symbols; including Adah Isaacs Menken and Lydia Thompson; fought to exert control over their own images. Buszek analyzes the evolution of the pin-up through the advent of the New Woman; the suffrage movement; fanzine photographs of early film stars; the Varga Girl illustrations that appeared in Esquire during World War II; the early years of Playboy magazine; and the recent revival of the genre in appropriations by third-wave feminist artists. A fascinating combination of art history and cultural history; Pin-Up Grrrls is the story of how women have publicly defined and represented their sexuality since the 1860s.