Feminine Representations of the Bucharest Statuary – A Gender Perspective
Feminine Representations of the Bucharest Statuary – A Gender Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Bucharest society started to be concerned about its public space at the end of the 19th century, as a result of the western influence. It is quite interesting that in a semi-oriental society where women used to stay indoors most of the time, two of the early Bucharest statues are women’s representations: Princess Bălaşa and Ana Davila are feminine representations. Both are accompanied by inscriptions which explain their role in the city life. The first important public building also offered the possibility of locating some neoclassical feminine representations having a symbolic value (homeland, industry, art). The purpose of this paper is to analyse those representations and texts which accompany them from a communicational perspective. The main working hypothesis concerns their implication in modelling Bucharest’s public space. The study represents the result of research done by the Research Centre of Foreign Language and Communication Chair – TUCB and some students from the NUAB Bucharest.

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