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The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
Tamar Garb
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Description for The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
Hardback. Charts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This book focuses on six canonic paintings and how they illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 150 b&w illustrations, 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJC; ACV; ACX; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1615.
The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.
The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres’s idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending ... Read more
The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.
The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres’s idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300111187
SKU
V9780300111187
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Ref
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About Tamar Garb
Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor of Art History, University College London. She is the author of, among other books, Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris, published by Yale University Press.
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