The painted face : portraits of women in France, 1814-1914

The painted face : portraits of women in France, 1814-1914 /

"In this book, distinguished scholar Tamar Garb reveals that the meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected. 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...

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Author / Contributor: Garb, Tamar (Author)
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Cassatt, Mary, > 1844-1926 > Themes, motives.
Cézanne, Paul, > 1839-1906 > Themes, motives.
Manet, Édouard, > 1832-1883 > Themes, motives.
Matisse, Henri, > 1869-1954 > Themes, motives.
Picasso, Pablo, > 1881-1973 > Themes, motives.
Women > France > Portraits.
Portrait painting, French > 19th century > Themes, motives.
Portrait painting, French > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Femininity in art.
Women in art.
Table of Contents:
  • Fictions of femininity in the case of Ingres's portrait of Madame de Senonnes
  • Framing femininity in Manet's portrait of Mlle E.G.
  • Blank mourning : portraiture and separation
  • Touching sexual difference : Madame Cézanne in a red dress
  • The portrait in pieces : Cubism's corpus
  • The lost subject of portraiture : Matisse's Portrait of 1913.

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