... a time when women were becoming less secluded and had more rights than before. Nevertheless the models for women remained restricted in the past and very traditional. The result is we are able to appreciate a strongly expressed collective female identity, but have less of a scope for the expression of individual identity. This is especially true for this sculpture because there is no real individuality (i.e. no expressive nature or distinguishing features), yet the innocence of images persists. The aesthetic harmony that this pose traditionally provides to an image is there but, we loose the sense of who this person really was. Thus when analyzing this figure we must take in to account body language, because body language is an essential element in the construction of identity. The pose is an integral part of the construction of meaning. In order to be an aesthetically successful image that reveals ...

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