Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care - Laurie Cluitmans (editor), Heske Ten Cate (editor)

A comprehensive, intersectional and transhistorical meditation on depictions of motherhood in art, from the Middle Ages to today

Published with Centraal Museum, Utrecht and Nest, The Hague.

Rooted in the visual arts, this book gathers a multitude of voices on the theme of motherhood. Though central to the core of all life, the topic of motherhood has long been relegated to the private domain. Within the art world, depictions of motherhood have also been fraught. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century, Mary was depicted as the "primal mother." Mothers were idealized in Western art, ofte
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