The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
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Elisabeth Vig e-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 Vig e-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226752828
ISBN13:9780226752822
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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