The Colour of Angels
Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination
Published on 4. January 2002
248 pages
978-1-134-67819-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.
Reviews / Votes
'With the blend of erudition and elegance we have now come to expect, Constance Classen's The Colour of Angels does much to restore the history of the senses to its proper importance.' - Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute'It is a solid and imaginative contribution to both the history of the senses as well as to feminist scholarship from the middle ages up to the rise of modernism.' - Henry Luce, The University of Chicago
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-67819-8 (9781134678198)
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10/1998
1st Edition
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Person
Constance Classen is a cultural historian whose previous publications include Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures and Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (with David Howes and Anthony Synnott).
Content
Introduction PART I Cosmology 1 On the color of angels: the sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier 2 The breath of God: sacred histories of scent PART II Gender 3 The scented womb and the seminal eye: embodying gender codes through the senses 4 Pens and needles: writing, women's work, and feminine sensibilities PART III Aesthetics 5 Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes: crossing sensory borders in the arts 6 A feel for the world: lessons in aesthetics from the blind
