The exceptional woman Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art
Elisabeth Vigee-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 her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as mons...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
1996
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Vigée Le Brun, Louise-Élisabeth <1755-1842> - Critique et interprétation
> Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth <1755-1842>
> Criticism and interpretation
> Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth
> Geschichte 1700-1800
> Geschichte 1750-1849
> Artistes et modèles - France - 18e siècle
> Femmes peintres - France - Psychologie
> Kunstbeleid
> Schilderijen
> Vrouwelijke kunstenaars
> Geschichte
> Malerei
> Artists and patrons
> History
> Women painters
> Psychology
> Anatomie
> Methode
> Künstlerin
> Ästhetik
> Kunstpsychologie
> Frankreich
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Elisabeth Vigee-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 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 Vigee-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. Central to Sheriff's analysis is one key question: given the cultural norms and social attitudes that regulated a woman's activities, how could Vigee-Lebrun conceive of herself as an artist, and indeed become a successful one, in old-regime 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 of this controversial woman artist. |
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 353 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0226752755 0-226-75275-5 |