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Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien

388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

xiv, 212 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

The art and ritual of childbirth in Renaissance Italy / Jacqueline Musacchio.

Medical Heritage Library

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre / par G.-J. Witkowski.

Women and gender in the early modern world

Childbirth and the display of authority in early modern France / Lianne McTavish.

Geburt : eine Kulturgeschichte in Bildern / F. v. Zglinicki.

38 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

La tazza da parto / Franco Crainz.

"This book is composed of found, anonymous pictures, and photographs of the artist's mother in the process of giving birth to her children"--Title page verso.
"A book of text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that strains and releases in unison. In addition to the photographic sequence, My Birth--a facsimile of Winant's own journal--includes an original text by the artist exploring the shared, yet solitary, ownership of the experience of birth. My Birth asks: What if birth, long shrouded and parodied by popular culture, was made visible? What if a comfortable and dynamic language existed to describe it? What if, in picturing the process so many times over and insisting on its very subjectivity, we understood childbirth, and its representation, to be a political act? My Birth, coincides with Winant's on-site installation at the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018. The complimentary projects were conceived of together, directly following the birth of the artist's first child and while she was pregnant with her second."--Publisher's description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

My birth / Carmen Winant.

Historia hospitalium.

Einige Entbindungsszenen aus den orientalischen Miniaturen / Emine M. Atabek.

"In these paintings I have tried to express the awareness of inner life which many women feel when they are pregnant, and something of the intensity of sensation in childbirth. The accompanying words are not intended to be descriptive, but reflect my own feelings as I did each painting. They were done wth a mixture of candle and beeswax on cotton, using brushes and a tjanting, a Javanese style wax pen through which the melted wax streams in a thin line." --Sheila Kitzinger from introduction.

A celebration of birth / by Sheila Kitzinger.

2 unnumbered pages, 41 pages, illustrations 17 plates ;

Geburts- und Wochenbettsdarstellungen auf altägyptischen Tempelreliefs : ein Beitrag zur prähistorischen Urgeburtshilfe an der Hand von 16 Originalaufnahmen in Lichtdruck und 12 Abbildungen im Text / [F. Weindler].

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Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

The art and ritual of childbirth in Renaissance Italy / Jacqueline Musacchio.

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre / par G.-J. Witkowski.

Childbirth and the display of authority in early modern France / Lianne McTavish.

Geburt : eine Kulturgeschichte in Bildern / F. v. Zglinicki.

La tazza da parto / Franco Crainz.

My birth / Carmen Winant.

Einige Entbindungsszenen aus den orientalischen Miniaturen / Emine M. Atabek.

A celebration of birth / by Sheila Kitzinger.

Geburts- und Wochenbettsdarstellungen auf altägyptischen Tempelreliefs : ein Beitrag zur prähistorischen Urgeburtshilfe an der Hand von 16 Originalaufnahmen in Lichtdruck und 12 Abbildungen im Text / [F. Weindler].

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Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

The art and ritual of childbirth in Renaissance Italy / Jacqueline Musacchio.

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre / par G.-J. Witkowski.

Childbirth and the display of authority in early modern France / Lianne McTavish.

Geburt : eine Kulturgeschichte in Bildern / F. v. Zglinicki.

La tazza da parto / Franco Crainz.

My birth / Carmen Winant.

Einige Entbindungsszenen aus den orientalischen Miniaturen / Emine M. Atabek.

A celebration of birth / by Sheila Kitzinger.

Geburts- und Wochenbettsdarstellungen auf altägyptischen Tempelreliefs : ein Beitrag zur prähistorischen Urgeburtshilfe an der Hand von 16 Originalaufnahmen in Lichtdruck und 12 Abbildungen im Text / [F. Weindler].

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