The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226752828 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her many books include "The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Ar" and "Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France". About the Author Mary D. Sheriff is W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her many books include "The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Ar" and "Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France". Kenan Jr. Mary D. Distinguished Professor and chair of the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. R. Sheriff is W.
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. Elisabeth 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. 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 Vigee Le Brun - not "an extremely uppity chick" I would like to correct the lady reviewer of Waltham, Massachusetts who does equal disservice to Mme Vigee Le Brun and to the writer of 'The Exceptional Woman : Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun and the Cultural Politics of Art' in labelling the artist an "extremely uppity chick". The writer would also be the first to correct the reviewer's odd notion that she has rescued Mme Vigee Le Brun from oblivion. Elisabeth-Louise was not only the finest portraitist of her day, and generally acknowledged as such, despite early salon criticism - compare the charm of her double portrait of Therese-Elisabeth-Charlotte, Madame Royale wi. See her work at the National Gallery of Art mbreed@nejm.org Wandering goggle-eyed through Washington's National Gallery of art, I was arrested by the most lively, lush, *real*, and striking depiction of women in the whole gallery. Imagine my delight upon inspecting the plaque and discovering the artist was one of us! No wonder her subjects -- two rich French court ladies enjoying an afternoon in the garden with their children -- were not *objects*, as were the drab, blurred, unhappy-looking women in most male painter's work. Researching the artist, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, whom I had never heard of (but of course -- she was a *woman* artist!) I discovered Mary Sheriff had . Five Stars good to have.