Eighteenth Century Women And The Arts


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Eighteenth Century Women And The Arts


Eighteenth Century Women And The Arts
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Author : Frederick M. Keener
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-11-22

Eighteenth Century Women And The Arts written by Frederick M. Keener and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-22 with Art categories.


A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century. A series of initial essays examines the biographical and historical conditions in which women of the times lived and worked. Some essays explore the attitudes of women themselves and how they perceived their roles, as well as their expectations expressed by male authors. Other essays focus on women's contributions to particular arts, notably poetry, the novel, music, and painting. A final section attends to research itself, reporting first on collaborative efforts to identify individual eighteenth-century women authors and discover trends in their writing. In addition, an alternative to the traditional scholarly methods course is provided in an example of the original research directed toward the rediscovery and understanding of the texts of Elizabeth Griffeth. This entertaining collection will foster new appreciation for the presence of women in the arts of the eighteenth century. An important contribution to women's studies, this volume is sure to be of special interest to students and scholars alike.



Eighteenth Century Women Artists


Eighteenth Century Women Artists
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Author : Caroline Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Unicorn
Release Date : 2017

Eighteenth Century Women Artists written by Caroline Chapman and has been published by Unicorn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art, Modern categories.


The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man's world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry, reproduce, and conform to rigid social conventions a professional artist risked becoming an object of gossip and hostility. Nevertheless, for a woman who had charm and good looks, was ambitious, and allied talent with hard work, success was attainable. This book examines the careers and working lives of celebrated artists like Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun but also of those who are now forgotten. As well as assessing the work itself - from history and genre painting to portraits - it considers artists' studios, the functioning of the print market, how art was sold, the role of patrons and the flourishing world of the lady amateur. It is enriched by up to 55 illustrations in glorious colour.



Femininity And Masculinity In Eighteenth Century Art And Culture


Femininity And Masculinity In Eighteenth Century Art And Culture
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Author : Gillian Perry
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1994

Femininity And Masculinity In Eighteenth Century Art And Culture written by Gillian Perry and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Arts, Modern categories.


Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities and collective conditions of women as producers of art and culture are investigated, together with analysis of representation and the ways in which it might be gendered. This illustrated book should make an important contribution to debates on representation, constructions of sexuality and women as producers.



Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe


Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Melissa Hyde
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02

Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Melissa Hyde and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Art categories.


The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground-breaking historical and literary studies in recent decades, women's engagement with the arts remains one of the richest and most under-explored areas for scholarly investigation. This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as "patronized" artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during the eighteenth century. By opening up the specific problems and conflicts inherent in women's artistic involvements from the perspective of what was at stake for the eighteenth-century women themselves, it also acts as a corrective to the generalizing and stereotyping about the prominence of those women, which is too often present in current day literature. Some essays are concerned with how women's involvement in the arts allowed them to fashion identities for themselves (whether national, political, religious, intellectual, artistic, or gender-based) and how such self-fashioning in turn enabled them to negotiate or intervene in the public domains of culture and politics where "The Woman Question" was so hotly debated. Other essays examine how men's patronage of women also served as a vehicle for self-fashioning for both artist and sponsor. Artists and patrons discussed include: Carriera; Queen Lovisa Ulrike and Chardin; the Bourbon Princesses Mlle Clermont, Mme Adélaïde and Nattier; the Duchess of Osuna and Goya; Marie-Antoinette and Vigée-Lebrun; Labille-Guiard; Queen Carolina of Naples, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski of Poland and Kauffman; David and his students, Mesdames Benoist, Lavoisier and Mongez.



Women And The Art And Science Of Collecting In Eighteenth Century Europe


Women And The Art And Science Of Collecting In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Arlene Leis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-31

Women And The Art And Science Of Collecting In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Arlene Leis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-31 with Art categories.


Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.



Moved By Love


Moved By Love
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Author : Mary D. Sheriff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-10-30

Moved By Love written by Mary D. Sheriff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with Art categories.


In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness—even death. Women and artists were seen as especially susceptible to these negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so. Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body and the mind in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on evidence from the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and medicine, she portrays the deviance ascribed to both inspired men and women. But while various mythologies worked to normalize deviance in male artists, women had no justification for their deviance. For instance, the mythical sculptor Pygmalion was cured of an abnormal love for his statue through the making of art. He became a model for creative artists, living happily with his statue come to life. No happy endings, though, were imagined for such inspired women writers as Sappho and Heloise, who burned with erotomania their art could not quench. Even so, Sheriff demonstrates, the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for creative women took full advantage of them. Brilliantly reassessing the links between sexuality and creativity, artistic genius and madness, passion and reason, Moved by Love will profoundly reshape our view of eighteenth- century French culture.



The Eighteenth Century Woman


The Eighteenth Century Woman
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Author : Olivier Bernier
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1981

The Eighteenth Century Woman written by Olivier Bernier and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Art, Modern categories.




Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe


Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art, European categories.


The age of enlightenment and revolution was a deeply complex period of dramatic ruptures and epistemic shifts. This has long been acknowledged by academics and historians. The place of women in this history and their role in cultural production is the subject of this detailed study.



Irish Women Artists


Irish Women Artists
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Release Date : 1987

Irish Women Artists written by and has been published by Paul Holberton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.




Materializing Gender In Eighteenth Century Europe


Materializing Gender In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Heidi A. Strobel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Materializing Gender In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Heidi A. Strobel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.


Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage. These material goods may have been intended to enforce and affirm gendered norms, however as the essays demonstrate, their use by subjects frequently put normative formations of gender into question, revealing the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies. This book will appeal to art historians, museum professionals, women's and gender studies specialists, students, and all those interested in the history of objects in everyday life.