Stephen Kern has discovered in Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist
art a recurring pattern for arranging the sexes: a profiled man
gazing at a woman who looks away from him and toward the viewer,
while she ponders an apparent offer. Kern draws on such images to
challenge the claim of some feminist critics and historians that
gazing men monopolize subjectivity and turn women into sex objects.
So intent are these writers on viewing women as victims, who in
fact reveal a commanding subjectivity. Compared with the eyes of
men, women's eyes are more visible, consider more varied thoughts,
and convey more profound, if not more intense, emotions.
An authoritative and highly original survey of European art and
literature, Eyes of Love also challenges another widely held belief
- that a double standard has clearly governed how society judged
the sexes. Kern supports these startling interpretations of Renoir,
Manet, Degas, Rossetti, Gauguin, Millais, Hunt, Burne-Jones, and
Tissot with every evidence from novels by Hugo, Flaubert, Zola,
Dickens, C. Bronte, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and H. James.
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