Impressionism: A Feminist Reading: The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century - Softcover

Broude, Norma

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9780064302326: Impressionism: A Feminist Reading: The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 10: 0064302326 ISBN 13: 9780064302326

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

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This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century, discussing the critical misconceptions attached to Impressionism and, in particular, the work of Monet. She explores the theory of Romanticism and the historiography of Impressionism as well as scientific writings of the nineteenth century. The book challenges present art historical thinking, applying feminist critiques to the art, literature, and philosophy of the nineteenth century. 0064301176 Feminism and Art History : Questioning the Litany 0064302075 the Expanding Discourse : Feminism and Art History

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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).

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