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Becoming a woman in the Age of Enlightenment : French art from the Horvitz Collection / Melissa Hyde & Mary D. Sheriff ; in collaboration with Alvin L. Clark, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyde, Melissa Lee, author.
- Sheriff, Mary D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in art--Exhibitions.
- Women in art.
- Art, French--18th century--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.
- Art, French.
- Horvitz Collection--Exhibitions.
- Horvitz Collection.
- Art--Massachusetts--Boston--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Themes, motives.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : The Horvitz Collection, 2017.
- Summary:
- Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection' is primarily an exhibition of drawings but will include pastels, paintings, and sculptures selected from one of the world?s best private collections of French drawings. The exhibition will feature nearly 120 works by many of the most prominent artists of the eighteenth century, including Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, as well as lesser-known artists both male and female, such as Anne Vallayer-Coster, Gabrielle Capet, François-André Vincent, Philibert-Louis Debucourt. Ranging from spirited, improvisational sketches and figural studies, to highly finished drawings of exquisite beauty, the works included in the exhibition vary in terms of style, genre, and period.0Becoming a Woman will be organized into thematic sections that address some of the most important and defining questions of women?s lives in the eighteenth century. These include: how the stages of a woman?s life were measured; what cultural attitudes and conditions in France shaped how women were defined; what significant relations women formed with men; what social and familial rituals gave order to their lives; what pleasures they pursued; and what work they accomplished. The aim is to bring new insights to the questions of what it meant to be a woman in this period, by offering the first exhibition to focus specifically on representations of women of a broad range of ages and conditions.00Exhibition: Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA (06.10.-31.12.2017).
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, October-December 2017, and at three other venues through Jaunary 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208).
- ISBN:
- 9780991262526
- 0991262522
- OCLC:
- 1005713765
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