{"product_id":"the-exceptional-woman-elisabeth-vigee-lebrun-and-the-cultural-politics-of-art","title":"The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Hardcover, 368 pages) – University of Chicago Press, 1997. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n 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.  ","brand":"Mary D. Sheriff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069974401258,"sku":"9780226752822","price":42.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/61TtsBjHbAL._SY522.jpg?v=1781234922","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-exceptional-woman-elisabeth-vigee-lebrun-and-the-cultural-politics-of-art","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}