The Visual Culture of Fashion and the Classical Ideal in Post-Revolutionary France - arthistoricum.net

Titel: The Visual Culture of Fashion and the Classical Ideal in Post-Revolutionary France
Urheber: Susan L Siegfried [ Autor/In ]
Enthalten in: The art bulletin; 97(2015), 1, Seite 77-99
Erschienen: 2015
ISSN: 0004-3079
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: Artists ; Painting ; Art ; Diplomatic & consular services ; Women
Inhalt: In her little-known painting A Study of a Woman after Nature (1802), Marie-Denise Villers exploited a conjuncture between masculine-inflected ideals of Neoclassical art and feminine-inflected ideas of fashionability in the post-Revolutionary period in France by making a feature of female dress while emulating the standards of history painting. The artist's confident synthesis of idioms is examined in the context of Albertine Clément-Hémery's memoir of a women's art studio. Walter Benjamin's notion of gestus is enlisted as a means of understanding how the quite different image cultures invoked in this work communicated social ideas
Medientyp: Artikel
Datenquelle: OLC Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft