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The painted face : portraits of women in France, 1814-1914 / Tamar Garb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garb, Tamar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Femininity in art.
- Portrait painting, French--19th century--Themes, motives.
- Portrait painting, French.
- Portrait painting, French--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Women in art.
- Women--France--Portraits.
- Women.
- France.
- Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926--Themes, motives.
- Cassatt, Mary.
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906--Themes, motives.
- Cézanne, Paul.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867--Themes, motives.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
- Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883--Themes, motives.
- Manet, Édouard.
- Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954--Themes, motives.
- Matisse, Henri.
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973--Themes, motives.
- Picasso, Pablo.
- Genre:
- Art criticism.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : 231 illustrations, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "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 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 with Matisse's elegiac last portrait of his wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting's capacity to describe and embellish "nature," to the prime locus of its refusal to do so. Picasso's Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie, provides the fulcrum of this shift"--Publisher's description.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 28, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300269178
- 030026917X
- OCLC:
- 1306161722
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