Impressionism A Feminist Reading - Hardcover

Broude, Norma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847813975 ISBN 13: 9780847813971

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1991

Synopsis

Broude (art history, American U., Washington, DC) analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the later 19th century, and reflects on the critical misconceptions attached to Impressionism, especially Monet, and the notion that the school was scientifically based. Includes 38 color plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars 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). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982).

From Publishers Weekly:

In its own day, impressionism was described as a "feminine" style of painting, admired or disliked for its fluid brushwork, its emotional, subjective engagement with nature. But male 20th-century critics, according to Broude, "regendered" impressionism as "masculine" by interpreting it as a cool, detached art of optical realism largely devoid of feeling or content. Broude, art historian at the American University in Washington, D.C., views the impressionists as the direct heirs to the romantics in their desire to communicate their emotional experience and in their rebellion against a scientific establishment that assumed a "masculine" mantle of objectivity and reason. A weakness in her argument is that she omits extended discussion of recent scholarship that puts impressionism in a social and political context. Nevertheless, this meticulously argued, resplendently illustrated study gives us a new way of looking at the impressionist enterprise.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0847813975
• ISBN 13: 9780847813971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192