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Carol Mavor Becoming (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Becoming : the Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
- Publication Name
- Becoming
- Title
- Becoming
- Subtitle
- The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0822323893
- EAN
- 9780822323891
- ISBN
- 9780822323891
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Photography, Art
- Release Date
- 25/08/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Item Length
- 9.8in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Individual Photographers / General, Subjects & Themes / Portraits
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822-1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class homes of the Victorian period, Lady Hawarden transformed the sitting room of her London residence into a photographic studio--a private space for taking surprising photos of her daughters in fancy dress. In Carol Mavor's hands, these pictures become windows into Victorian culture, eroticism, mother-daughter relationships, and intimacy. With drama, wit, and verve, Lady Hawarden's girls, becoming women, entwine each other, their mirrored reflections and select feminine objects (an Indian traveling cabinet, a Gothic-style desk, a shell-covered box) as homoerotic partners. The resulting mise-en-sc ne is secretive, private, delicious, and arguably queer--a girltopia ripe with maternality and adolescent flirtation, as touching as it is erotic. Luxuriating in the photographs' interpretive possibilities, Mavor makes illuminating connections between Hawarden and other artists and writers, including Vermeer, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and twentieth-century photographers Sally Mann and Francesca Woodman. Weaving psychoanalytic theory and other photographic analyses into her work, Mavor contemplates the experience of the photograph and considers the relationship of Hawarden's works to the concept of the female fetish, to voyeurism, mirrors and lenses, and twins and doubling. Under the spell of Roland Barthes, Mavor's voice unveils the peculiarities of the erotic in Lady Hawarden's images through a writerly approach that remembers and rewrites adolescence as sustained desire. In turn autobiographical, theoretical, historical, and analytical, Mavor's study caresses these mysteriously ripped and scissored images into fables of sapphic love and the real magic of photography.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822323893
ISBN-13
9780822323891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
635781
Product Key Features
Book Title
Becoming : the Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Individual Photographers / General, Subjects & Themes / Portraits
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Photography, Art
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr681.W6m38 1999
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“ Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure-indeed, unforgettable.�-Richard Howard, "The author's perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does."--Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel, "To those accustomed to the detached tone of the academic monograph, Carol Mavor's stance in Becoming will seem daring. From the effusive acknowledgements onwards, the author thrusts herself to the front, so that her particular appreciation of what she studies becomes both subject and critical method."--Lindsay Duguid, TLS, October 15, 1999"The author's perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does." -Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel, " Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure-indeed, unforgettable."-Richard Howard, " Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure--indeed, unforgettable."--Richard Howard, “The author’s perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does.�-Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel, "The author's perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does."-Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Preface: "Only, my secret's mine, and I won't tell" An Erotic Note A Queer Note Introduction: Adolescent Reverie Reduplicative Desires "In Which the Story Pauses a Little" Sapphic Narcissa Collecting Loss Postscript List of Illustrations Notes Works Cited Index 211
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-010105
Dewey Decimal
770.92
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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