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  • Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century: Strategic Reinterpretations

    Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century by Fend, Mechthild; Germann, Jennifer; Hyde, Melissa;

    Strategic Reinterpretations

    Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700; 61;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 10 February 2025

    • ISBN 9789048558827
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages414 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Weight 1120 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 93 Illustrations, black & white; 23 Illustrations, color
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    Short description:

    This book represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of 18th-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality.

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    Long description:

    Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. Some chapters center on individual genres like hunting portraits, or on specific paintings, such as David Martin's Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray (ca. 1780) or Marie Guillemine Benoist's Portrait of a Young Black Woman (Madeleine) (1800). Others make contributions on the work of familiar actors like Jean-Siméon Chardin or Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. The volume also brings to the fore lesser-known figures including Marie-Thérèse Reboul, Madeleine Basseporte, Marguerite Le Comte, and Gabrielle Capet. Written by eleven distinguished (art) historians, the assembled essays engage with and honor the work of the late Mary D. Sheriff, whose unpublished chapter on women artists’ self-portraiture opens the book.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction: Mary D. Sheriff: Charting New Possibilities for Feminist Art History - Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann, and Melissa Hyde,OVERTURE, 1. Women and Modes of Self-Portraiture: Fashion, Motherhood, Sensibilité, - Mary D. Sheriff, Part I. ART AS SOCIAL PRACTICE, 2. The Woman Artist and the Uncovering of the Social World, - Lynn Hunt, 3. La touche d'une femme: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions, - Paris Spies-Gans, Part II. GENDER AND FASHION, 4. Chardin's Girls: The Ethics of Painting, - Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, 5. Thinking Animals: Dogs and Men in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Art, - Amy Freund, 6. Temporality and Figures de mode: Fashion, Costume, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Drawings and Prints, - Susan L. Siegfried, Part III. WOMEN IN NATURAL HISTORY, 7. Marie-Thérèse Reboul (Mme Vien): More Than a Footnote in Art History, - Melissa Hyde, 8. Mlle Basseporte's Jardin, Mlle Biheron's Cabinet: Artist-Scientists and Their Spheres of Sociability, - Nina Rattner Gelbart, Part IV. ENCOUNTERS IN PORTRAITURE, 9. Marguerite Le Comte's Smile: Portrait of an Amatrice, - Mechthild Fend, 10. Imperial Family Portraits: Gender, Race, and Social Rank in The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, - Jennifer Germann, 11. Madeleine of the Americas: Resituating Benoist's Portrait of a Young Black Woman in Colonial Art, - Anne Lafont, Index.

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