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The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
ISBN-13:
9780226752754
ISBN-10:
0226752755
Author:
Mary D. Sheriff
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
History
,
Arts History & Criticism
,
Women's Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780226752754
ISBN-10:
0226752755
Author:
Mary D. Sheriff
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
History
,
Arts History & Criticism
,
Women's Studies
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The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (ISBN-13: 9780226752754 and ISBN-10: 0226752755), written by authors
Mary D. Sheriff, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1996.
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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. 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.
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