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Exceptional Woman : Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art by Mary D. Sheriff (1997, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226752828
ISBN-139780226752822
eBay Product ID (ePID)77420
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameExceptional Woman : Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIndividual Artists / General, Art & Politics, Women's Studies, History / General
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Social Science
AuthorMary D. Sheriff
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal759.4
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE- The Anatomy Lessons of Elisabeth Vigèe-Lebrun 1. The Sense and Sex Organs 2. The Mother's Imagination and the Fathers' Tradition PART TWO- Elisabeth Vigèe-Lebrun in 1783 3. The Law, the Academy, and the Exceptional Woman 4. The Im/modesty of Their Sex: The Woman's Gaze and the Female History Painter 5. The Portrait of the Queen 6. The Portrait of the Artist PART THREE- Staging Allegory 7. Elisabeth, or Italy 8. Germaine, or Corinne Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Photographic Credits Index
SynopsisElisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine. In The Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigée-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigée-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women. Engaging ancien-régime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigée-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist., Elisabeth Vig e-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine. In The Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vig e-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vig e-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women. Engaging ancien-r gime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vig e-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.
