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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
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- Author
- Sheriff, Mary D.
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226752822
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (23 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14