Gen Doy's Books

Claude Cahun

A Sensual Politics of Photography

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Claude Cahun

A Sensual Politics of Photography

By: Gen Doy

This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived and seeing the photographs as part of Cahun's wider life as an artist and writer, a woman and lesbian and as a political activist in the early twentieth century. Doy rethinks Cahun's approach to dress and masquerade, looking at the images in light of the situation of women at the time and within the prevailing 'beauty' culture. Addressing Cahun's ambivalent relationship with Symbolism and later relationship with Surrealism, this highly readable book also looks at Cahun's unusual approach to the domestic object.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000211770

ISBN 13

9781000211771

Seeing and Consciousness

Women, Class and Representation

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seeing and Consciousness

Women, Class and Representation

By: Gen Doy

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from the French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have shaped visual imagery. She shows how Marxist theory can function to question some of the premises of feminist art histories and to provide a more accurate understanding of the meaning(s) of visual imagery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

100032513X

ISBN 13

9781000325133

Drapery

Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Drapery

Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud's "Gravida", Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures, the fetishistic play between veiling and revealing and the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's movement on fine art practice. Yet she also finds and focuses on the draped body now in places like Algeria and Kosovo where drapery's connotations are no longer those of purity and civilized elegance but of barbarism, poverty, and savage death.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

398

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0755605950

ISBN 13

9780755605958

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis in Rock Mechanics Practice

By: Yossef H. Hatzor,Guowei Ma,Gen-hua Shi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis in Rock Mechanics Practice

By: Yossef H. Hatzor,Guowei Ma,Gen-hua Shi

The numerical, discrete element, Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method was developed by Dr. Gen-hua Shi while he was working at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Richard E. Goodman in the late 1980s. Two-dimensional DDA was published in 1993 and three-dimensional DDA in 2001. Since its publication DDA has been verified, validated and applied in numerous studies worldwide and is now considered a powerful and robust method to address both static and dynamic engineering problems in discontinuous rock masses. In this book Yossef H. Hatzor and Guowei Ma, co-chairs of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Commission on DDA, join Dr. Shi in authoring a monograph that presents the state of the art in DDA research. A comprehensive discussion of DDA development since its publication is provided in Chapter 1, followed by concise reviews of 2D and 3D DDA in chapters 2 and 3. Procedures to select geological and numerical input parameters for DDA are discussed in Chapter 4, and DDA validation and verification is presented in Chapter 5. Applications of DDA in underground and rock slope engineering projects are discussed in chapters 6 and 7. In Chapter 8 the novel contact theory recently developed by Dr. Shi is published in its complete form, for the first time. This book is published within the framework of the ISRM Book Series and is the contribution of the ISRM DDA Commission to the international rock mechanics community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

390

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317416937

ISBN 13

9781317416937

Drapery

Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Drapery

Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture around the world. She looks at areas such as the changes in drapery's connotations from purity to barbarity in holy war torn countries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

I.B. Tauris

Published Date

ISBN 10

1860645380

ISBN 13

9781860645389

Seeing and Consciousness

Women, Class and Representation

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seeing and Consciousness

Women, Class and Representation

By: Gen Doy

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

223

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

100032334X

ISBN 13

9781000323344

Picturing the Self

Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Picturing the Self

Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

By: Gen Doy

Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes' theory of "I think therefore I am" to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, from Holbein's "Ambassadors" and the early modern period up to and beyond Marc Quinn's "Self" (Blood Head). Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, she explores such topics as self-expression; the self, work and consumption; self-presentation; photography and the theatre of the self; the marginalized - beggars and asylum seekers - and "the real me". A wide range of artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeff Wall, Eugene Palmer and Karen Knorr, are discussed, as well as historical material from earlier periods.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

I.B. Tauris

Published Date

ISBN 10

1850434131

ISBN 13

9781850434139

Claude Cahun

A Sensual Politics of Photography

By: Gen Doy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Claude Cahun

A Sensual Politics of Photography

By: Gen Doy

The first full-length title in English on the celebrated photographer Claude Cahun whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. This lively and original book looks at Cahun and her oeuvre in the contexts of the turbulent times in which she lived. Surveying standard postmodernist approaches to Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, Doy goes further, positioning Cahun's photographs as part of her life as a woman, lesbian and political activist in the early twentieth century. Doy considers Cahun's relationships with Symbolism and then Surrealism and her approach to dress and masquerade, assessing the images in the context of the situation of women at the time and within the prevailing fashion and beauty culture. She also pays attention to her curious images of constructed objects and re-evaluates the status of Cahun's small-scale snapshots as photographs. Enormously readable, 'Claude Cahun' at last provides a fuller picture of this important artist's life and work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

I.B. Tauris

Published Date

ISBN 10

1845115511

ISBN 13

9781845115517

Book's by Gen Doy

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

Seeing and Consciousness

Seeing and Consciousness

Drapery

Drapery

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis in Rock Mechanics Practice

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis in Rock Mechanics Practice

Drapery

Drapery

Seeing and Consciousness

Seeing and Consciousness

Picturing the Self

Picturing the Self

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email