Buch: Beauty and the Banknote

Virginia Hewitt

Beauty and the Banknote

Images of Women on Paper Money

1994

64 Seiten

British Museum Press, London

ISBN 0-7141-0877-4

Das Buch erschien anläßlich einer Ausstellung in British Museum vom 17. Mai bis 18. September 1994.

Aus dem Rückseitentext: From cool allegory to haughty beauty, images of women have adorned paper money across the world for almost two hundred years. Proud Britannias and crowned monarchs, glamour-girls and cotton-pickers have all been summonedto proclaim the wealth of a bank, the power of a state, or the glory of a nation. Beyond their official role, however, the reveal how female figures on mass-produced objects both reflect and reinforce our conflicting pereceptions ofwomen and their place in society.