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Title

A revolution on canvas : the rise of women artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 / Paris A. Spies-Gans.

Author

Spies-Gans, Paris A.

Publication

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022

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Description

xi, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

A Revolution on Canvas' argues that women artists professionalized in unprecedented numbers during the Revolutionary era, engaging with the cultural and intellectual currents of their societies and earning substantial incomes from their work despite the obstacles they encountered. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of these artists' careers, this groundbreaking book argues that exactly as political citizenship was being defined as a male privilege, women entered the public sphere as professional artists in significant numbers for the first time. Its subjects include a number of increasingly well-known painters, such as Angelica Kauffman, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, and Adelaide Labille-Guiard, alongside copious other artists who were lauded in their own times but are little-known in ours. This book challenges several longstanding assumptions and myths about women's artistic activity during this period, ultimately presenting overwhelming evidence to contend that with their art, women engaged profoundly with the cultural, political, and economic currents of the Revolutionary era, navigating institutional inequalities that were often expressly designed to exclude members of their sex in order to forge profitable artistic identities.

Alternative Title

• Rise of women artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830
• Rise of women artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830

Subject

• 1700-1899
• Women artists > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Women artists > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Women artists > France > History > 18th century
• Women artists > France > History > 19th century
• Women artists > London > History > 18th century
• Women artists > London > History > 19th century
• Women artists > Paris > History > 18th century
• Women artists > Paris > History > 19th century
• Art, British > 18th century
• Art, British > 19th century
• Art, French > 18th century
• Art, French > 19th century
• Femmes artistes > Paris > Histoire > 18e siècle
• Femmes artistes > Paris > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Femmes artists > Londres > Histoire > 18e siècle
• Femmes artists > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Art français > Paris > 18e siècle
• Art français > Paris > 19e siècle
• Art britannique > Londres > 18e siècle
• Art britannique > Londres > 19e siècle
• Art, British
• Art, French
• Women artists
• Women artists > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Women artists > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Women artists > France > History > 19th century
• Art, British > 18th century
• Art, British > 19th century
• Art, French > 18th century
• Art, French > 19th century
• England > London
• France
• France > Paris
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-354) and index.

Contents

Introduction: A way to independence -- The revolutionary rise of women artists in London and Paris -- Becoming an exhibiting artist -- Choosing a subject to exhibit in London -- Choosing a subject to exhibit in Paris -- Building commercial networks -- Conclusion: Brushes with greatness -- Coda.

ISBN

• 9781913107291
• 1913107299

LCCN

• 2021947993
• 99993608770
• 99991811372

OCLC

• on1329222383
• 1329222383
• SCSB-14322580

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries