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The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art

by Mary D. Sheriff from University Of Chicago Press

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine.

In The Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigée-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigée-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women.

Engaging ancien-régime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigée-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.

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Memoirs Of Madame Vigee Lebrun

by Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun from Kessinger Publishing, LLC

This vivid autobiography recounts the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, one of the finest painters of 18th-century France, who lived during the turbulent era of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

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Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun

by Vigee Legrun from Doubleday, Page

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Classroom use of the art print.(self-portraits): An article from: Arts & Activities

from Publishers' Development Corporation

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Citation Details
Title: Classroom use of the art print.(self-portraits)
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 137 Issue: 2 Page: 32(1)

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