The Exceptional Woman : Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art Paperback / softback
by Mary D. Sheriff
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favourite 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 this study Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigee-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in 18th-century France.
Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigee-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women.
Engaging ancien-regime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigee-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:24/10/1997
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- ISBN:9780226752822
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:24/10/1997
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- ISBN:9780226752822