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Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun and the Cultural Politics of Art
 
 

Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun and the Cultural Politics of Art [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Mary D. Sheriff (Author) "In the Summer of 1792, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun visited the cabinet of Felice Fortana, the celebrated Florentine anatomist and maker of wax anatomical models ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press; illustrated edition edition (11 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226752755
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226752754
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,451,756 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favourite 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 this work, 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 18th-century 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 aim to challenge the reader into rethinking the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars See her work at the National Gallery of Art, 9 Oct 1997
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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 just published a book about her. I waited for the paperback and have ordered it, and can't wait to find out more. From what I can tell she was an extremely uppity chick, the best kind, and a survivor (usually a contradiction in terms in Elisabeth's day: she managed to scram out of France with her head and her money intact as the Revolution descended, although her buddy and patron Marie Antoinette fared less well, as we know.) Sounds like a great costume drama for Jane Campion, starring a strong, knowing, and savvy personality. Holly Hunter, Judy Davis have the strength. Elizabeth Shue has the look. Add Vigee-Lebrun to your collection of women who prevailed against the odds. Retrieve her from obscurity. Most of all: look at her work!
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