Portraying Pregnancy Aviation skills / piloting Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia

and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister

Imagine exploring the depths of the ocean

and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler

Portraying Pregnancy Aviation skills / piloting Colm TóibínThough many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter's pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer. Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of