Exceptional Woman - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art

A court-painter to Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun was rediscovered in the 1970s as part of the "hidden feminist heritage". This text uses her career to explore the position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional and medical debates about women in 18th-century France.

Product details

• Authors: Mary D. Sheriff, SHERIFF MARY D, Sheriff Mary D.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.1997
• EAN: 9780226752822
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75282-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Women Artists, Painting & paintings, Gender studies: women, Individual artists, art monographs, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Paintings and painting