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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.
- Publication date
- [2010]
- Call number
- 653251
