Portraying Pregnancy by Karen Hearn - ISBN: 9781911300809
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Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Foundling Museum, 24 January - 26 April 2020.

Portraying Pregnancy

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    112 pages

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    24 January 2020

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Summary

Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter’s pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer. Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of pregnancy through the ages and interrogates how…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781911300809
ISBN-10:1911300806
Author:Karen Hearn
Publisher:Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Imprint:Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:24 January 2020
Weight:481g
Dimensions:260mm x 210mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

“Exploring the often wildly inventive ways in which artists in Britain have variously sought to hide, flaunt or spoof the pregnant form in art, from medieval times to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy is as beautiful as it is surprising.”– “The Telegraph”

About The Author

Karen Hearn

Karen Hearn is an exhibition curator and a historian of British art and culture.

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