Women art critics in nineteenth-century France : vanishing acts / / edited by Wendelin Guentner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822043503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : University of Delaware Press; Plymouth, England, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2013
• ISBN: 1-61149-566-0; 1-61149-447-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GuentnerWendelin Ann <1950->
• Disciplina: 709.2/520944
• Soggetti: Women art critics - France - History - 19th century; Art criticism - France - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface; Women Writing Art; Reappearing Acts; Notes; Introduction; The Ideology of the Two Spheres; The Education of Girls; The Menace of the Bas-Bleus; The Salon and Its Art Critics; The Golden Age of Art Criticism: Society, Economics, and Culture; Art Criticism as a Literary Genre: Denis Diderot; The Literary Craft of Art Criticism; Notes; 1 "C. W. . . . académicienne"; Wuiet and Authorial Voice; What a Woman Wants: Female Spectatorship; Notes; 2 Amélie-Julie Candeille's Critical Enterprise and the Creation of "Girodet"; Epistolary Art Criticism in Women's WritingsCandeille as Corresponding Critic; Managing Girodet; Fashioning Girodet en publique; Notes; 3 Women Art Critics during the July Monarchy (1830-1848); Art Criticism and the Paris Salon; Women Art Critics and the Parisian Cultural World; Women as Spectators; Beyond Gender: Issues of Class and Education; Further Questions; Notes; 4 "A Career True to Woman's Nature"; Women Artists: Class and Education; The Mission of Women Art Critics; The British Connection; Gender or Class?; The Gender of Genius and the Artistic Genres; Women Art Critics and the (Limited) Contours of an Artistic VisionNotes; 5 Claude Vignon's Salon de 1850-51; The Art Critic and ; Her Readers; Historical Context and Political Ideologies; Spiritual Ideologies; The Author behind the Critic; Notes; 6 "Dieu! Une plume de femme!"; A Rhetoric of Sincerity; To Feel or to Think: That Is the Question; Playing Favorites: Critics and Artists at the 1859 Salon; A Voice of Her Own; Notes; 7 "Marc" de Montifaud; Envisioning History Painting; Genre Painting: History Writ Small; Portraits of Degeneration; The Subjective Landscape; Corot, Pagan Poet; Notes; 8 "Tel père, telle fille"Judith Gautier, Artist, and the French Art World; Judith Gautier, Author, and the Far East; Judith Gautier, Art Critic; Notes; Conclusion; The Ideology of the Two Spheres, Revisited; Vanishing Genre?; Vanishing Gender?; Final Act; Encores; Notes; Appendix 1; Notes; Appendix 2; Notes; Appendix 3; Notes; Appendix 4; Notes; Appendix 5; Notes; Appendix 6; Notes; Appendix 7; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the first sustained study of a corpus of writings by women art critics active in nineteenth-century France that have all but "vanished" from the historical record. Written by scholars in art history and in literature, the essays employ a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies to study the women's reception of specific artworks and aesthetic movements in the nineteenth century, the intersections of aesthetics and politics in their essays, and their rhetorical strategies and literary styles.