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Flora

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Description: "In Neeta Madahar's new series of allegorical portraits 'Flora,' the traditional procedure of personification is reversed: here, actual women appropriate imagery stretching back to antiquity to fashion and empowering public persona. A favourite subject of Renaissance and Baroque painters, Flora was traditionally depicted as a young woman surrounded by reveling devotees bearing floral tributes. Madahar, however, presents us with a different Flora. Her immediate inspiration was not Botticelli but the stylized portrait photography of the 1930s-50s including that of Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and Madam Yevonde. These are images of real women whose bodies and comportment exemplify a willful sense of self-possession won through lived experience"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2010]
Call number: 653251
Creator: Madahar, Neeta(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9781590052501; 1590052501
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions: 36 cm
Associated people: Doyle, Allan,
Associated organization: Nazraeli Press,
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