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).
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/ Linda Nochlin -- "Catching a touch of the ephemeral" : Berthe Morisot and Impressionism / Sylvie Patry -- Seven unpublished letters from Mary Cassatt to Berthe Morisot and her daughter, Julie Manet / Hugues Wilhelm -- Mary Cassatt : the touch and the gaze, or Impressionism for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.
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