Women impressionists / edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein ; [translations, Bronwen Saunders, John Tittensor].

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Frankfurt am Main] : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2008.Description: 319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cmISBN:

9783775720793 (English ed.)
3775720790 (English ed.)

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DDC classification:

759.054 BRA

Contents:

Impressionism is feminine : on the reception of Morisot, Cassatt, Gonzalès, and Bracquemond / Ingird Pfeiffer -- Morisot\'s Wet nurse : the construction of work and leisure in Impressionist painting / Linda Nochlin -- Catching a touch of the ephemeral : Berthe Morisot and Impressionism / Sylvie Patry -- Seven unpublished letters from Mary Cassatt to Berthe Morisot and her daughter, Julie Manet / Hugues Wilhelm -- Mary Cassatt : the touch and the gaze, or Impressionism for thinking people / Griselda Pollock -- So firm and powerful a hand : Mary Cassatt\'s techniques and questions of gender / Pamela A. Ivinski -- Expressive red : Eva Gonzalès and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu -- Marie Bracquemond : the lady with the parasol / Jean-Paul Bouillon -- A call to arms : women artists\' struggle for professional recognition in the nineteenth-century art world / Ann Havemann.

Summary: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the works of four women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, a key protagonist of the Impressionist movement; Mary Cassatt, who had her own special role to play in the movement and was held in high esteem by fellow painter Edgar Degas; Eva Gonzales, a gifted artist and Edouard Manet\'s only student; and Marie Bracquemond, who abandoned painting in the interests of marital harmony. This superbly illustrated book also contains essays by a number of writers, who besides providing a knowledgeable introduction to these four women painters, also succeed in conveying to us the context in which they worked.--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759.054 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100398677

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"This book is a comprehensive introduction to the works of four women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, a key protagonist of the Impressionist movement; Mary Cassatt, who had her own special role to play in the movement and was held in high esteem by fellow painter Edgar Degas; Eva Gonzales, a gifted artist and Edouard Manet's only student; and Marie Bracquemond, who abandoned painting in the interests of marital harmony." "This superbly illustrated book also contains essays by a number of writers, who besides providing a knowledgeable introduction to these four women painters, also succeed in conveying to us the context in which they worked."--BOOK JACKET.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Women Impressionists. Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Feb. 22-June 1, 2008, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, June 21-Sept. 21, 2008.

Issued also in German under title: Impressionistinnen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317).

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the works of four women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, a key protagonist of the Impressionist movement; Mary Cassatt, who had her own special role to play in the movement and was held in high esteem by fellow painter Edgar Degas; Eva Gonzales, a gifted artist and Edouard Manet\'s only student; and Marie Bracquemond, who abandoned painting in the interests of marital harmony. This superbly illustrated book also contains essays by a number of writers, who besides providing a knowledgeable introduction to these four women painters, also succeed in conveying to us the context in which they worked.--BOOK JACKET.