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This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the critical misconceptions attached to Impressionism, in particular the work of Monet.
List of contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Impressionism and Romanticism -- Thematic Continuities -- Effect and Emotion in Romantic and Impressionist Painting -- Effect and Finish: The Evolution of the Impressionist Style -- Impressionism and Science -- Romantic versus Normal Science in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Science and the Arts -- The Optical as a Path to the Personal: The Writings of Duranty, Martelli, and Laforgue -- The Gendering of Impressionism -- The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century -- Impressionism and Symbolism -- The Republican Defense of Science and The Regendering of Impressionism -- Impressionism and Modernism
About the author
Norma Broude is a professor of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and is a leading scholar in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992).
Summary
This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the critical misconceptions attached to Impressionism, in particular the work of Monet.
