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| Varying Form of Title: | Sisters of the brush : women's artistic culture in late 19th-century Paris
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| Other authors / contributors: | Yale University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9780300269161
0300269161
0300059035
9780300059038
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index.
Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 5, 2022).
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| Summary: | "The Union of Women Painters and Sculptors was founded in Paris in 1881 to represent the interests of women artists and to facilitate the exhibition of their work. This lively and informative book traces the history of the first fifteen years of the organization and places it in the contexts of the Paris art world and the development of feminism in the late nineteenth century. Tamar Garb explores how the Union campaigned to have women artists written about in the press and admitted to the Salon jury and into the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts and describes how the organization's leaders took their campaigns into the French parliament itself. Although the women of the Union were often quite conservative politically, socially, and stylistically, says Garb, they believed that women had a special gift that would enhance France's cultural reputation and maintain the uplifting moral-cultural position that seemed in jeopardy at the turn of the century. Focusing on the developments that made the prominence of the organization possible, Garb discusses the growth of the women's movement, educational reforms, institutional changes in the art world, and critical debates and contemporary scientific thought. She examines contemporary perceptions of both art and femininity, showing how the understanding of one affected the image of the other"--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Garb, Tamar. Sisters of the brush. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994 0300059035
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