{"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":"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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nEngaging 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0226752828\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0226752828.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sheriff, Mary D.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41924523098170,"sku":"DBV.0226752828.A","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0226752828-0.jpg?v=1794544945","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-exceptional-woman-elisabeth-vigee-lebrun-and-the-cultural-politics-of-art","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}