Download or read book Female Beauty in Art written by Maria Ioannou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods t...