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Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 - A Space for the Imagination (Paperback)
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Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 - A Space for the Imagination (Paperback)
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The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in
French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French
Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this
imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of
femininity and social relations. Covering a broad range of
paintings, prints, and sculptures, this book shows how the liseuse
was subjected to unprecedented levels of pictorial innovation by
artists with widely differing aesthetic aims and styles. Depictions
of readers are interpreted as contributions to changing notions of
public and private life, female agency, and women's participation
in cultural and political debates beyond the domestic household.
This highly original book explores images of women readers from a
range of social classes in both urban and rural settings. Such
images are shown to have articulated concerns about the impact of
female literacy on labour environments and family life while, in
many cases, challenging conventions of gendered reading. Kathryn
Brown also presents an alternative way of conceiving of modernity
in relation to nineteenth-century art, a methodological departure
from much recent art historical literature. Artists discussed range
from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as
Lavieille, Carriere, Toulmouche and Tissot.
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