Interior Portraiture And Masculine Identity In France 1789914

Author : HeatherBelnap Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351562592
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789?914 " written by HeatherBelnap Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Contributors analyze portraits of men in domestic and studio spaces in France during the long nineteenth century; the preponderance of such portraits alone supports the book's premise that the alignment of men with public life is oversimplified and more myth than reality. The volume offers analysis of works by a mix of artists, from familiar names such as David, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Rodin, and Matisse to less well-known image makers including Dominique Doncre, Constance Mayer, Anders Zorn and Lucien-Etienne Melingue. The essays cover a range of media from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture that allows exploration of the relation between masculinity and interiority across the visual culture of the period. The home and other interior spaces emerge from these studies as rich and complex locations for both masculine self-expression and artistic creativity. Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 provides a much-needed rethinking of modern masculinity in this period.

Author : Temma Balducci
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780754667841
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 written by Temma Balducci and published by Ashgate Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of nineteenth-century French portraits of men in interior spaces, contributors provide a much-needed rethinking of assumptions that link masculinity, modernity and the public realm. The artists discussed include familiar ones such as David, Delacroix, Manet and Rodin as well as less well-known figures such as Mayer, Melingue and Zorn. The essays make use of wide-ranging visual material from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture.

Author : Temma Balducci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351536583
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789?914 " written by Temma Balducci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-?is the public. Attending to various iterations of the public as space, sphere and discourse, sixteen essays challenge the false binary construct that has held the public as the sole preserve of prosperous men. By contrast, the essays collected in Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 demonstrate that definitions of both femininity and the public were mutually defining and constantly shifting. In examining the relationship between affluent women, femininity and the public, the essays gathered here consider works by an array of artists that includes canonical ones such as Mary Cassatt and Fran?s G?rd as well as understudied women artists including Louise Abb? and Broncia Koller. The essays also consider works in a range of media from fashion prints and paintings to private journals and architectural designs, facilitating an analysis of femininity in public across the cultural production of the period. Various European centers, including Madrid, Florence, Paris, Brittany, Berlin and London, emerge as crucial sites of production for genteel femininity, providing a long-overdue rethinking of modern femininity in the public sphere.