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In Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art, Gal Ventura investigates the ideological concepts behind the endorsement of maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society. Using diverse visual and textual sources and surveying hundreds of artworks produced from the time of the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century, Ventura reveals the historical, political, religious, and economic factors that shaped the representations of breast-feeding and its substitutes in French art. She thus sheds light on the changing attitudes toward maternal breast-feeding in nineteenth-century France, which have had a considerable impact on the glorification of breast-feeding in the Western world to this very day.
Price: $261.00
Pages: 470
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Publication Date:
11 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004366824
Format: Hardcover
Gal Ventura (Ph.D. 2009) is a senior lecturer in the art history department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a cultural art historian, and deals mainly with socio-medical aspects of family, maternity and death in nineteenth-century French art. She published numerous articles on motherhood in art, including Crying over Spilt Milk (Magnes, 2013), and is currently writing a book on babies' sleep in nineteenth-century French art.