: reading an icon historically Hamer, Mary creator text Exeter University Of Exeter Press 2008 2nd ed. monographic eng hbk

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xx, 172 p. : ill. 24 cm. The purpose of this book is to raise questions about how these images of a dead Egyptian queen were read. Through careful analysis Hamer traces attempts to manipulate attitudes to women and power, women and sexuality and to desire itself. In the case of Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, for example, the Queen embodies the desire for knowledge; in post-Revolutionary France, she symbolises political freedom. In the new introductory essay we discover that Cleopatra’s role as a focus for cultural debate continues, and that, as previously, much is at stake: it is now the question of her race that is highly contested. Bib and Ref History 932.02109 HAM 9780859898263 250922 20250922134533.0