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Title:

Women, femininity and public space in European visual culture, 1789-1914 / edited by Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xviii, 317 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Women in art.
Art, European--19th century.
Women artists--Europe.
Public spaces--History--Europe--History--19th century.
Women--Europe--Social conditions--19th century.
Art, European--19th century.
Public spaces--History--Europe--History--19th century.
Women--Europe--Social conditions--19th century.
Women artists--Europe.
Women in art.
Art, European.
Public spaces--Social aspects.
Women artists.
Women in art.
Women--Social conditions.
Europe.
Frau.
Kunst.
Öffentlichkeit.
Europa.
1800 - 1899
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Other Authors:

Balducci, Temma, editor.
Jensen, Heather Belnap, editor.
Jensen, Heather Belnap, author. Marketing the maternal body in the public spaces of post-Revolutionary Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

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-a-vis 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 Francois Gerard as well as understudied women artists including Louise Abbema 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.

ISBN:

1409465721
9781409465720

OCLC:

(OCoLC)876466633

LCCN:

2014012028

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)