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The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
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The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914 Hardcover - 2007

by Tamar Garb


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The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Czanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres's idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending with Matisse's elegiac last portrait of his wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting's capacity to describe and embellish "nature," to the prime locus of its refusal to do so. Picasso's Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie, provides the fulcrum of this shift.

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  • Title The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
  • Author Tamar Garb
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date September 26, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300111187 / 0300111185
  • Weight 3.56 lbs (1.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.25 x 9.41 x 0.94 in (28.58 x 23.90 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - France, Femininity in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006100419
  • Dewey Decimal Code 757.409

About the author

Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor of Art History, University College London. She is the author of, among other books, Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris, published by Yale University Press.
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