The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226752828
ISBN13:9780226752822
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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