The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook

by Russell T. Clement, Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey, Annick Houze

Overview

This reference organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie Bracquemond, four major women Impressionist artists. The Impressionist group included several women artists of considerable ability whose works and lives were largely ignored until the advent of feminist art criticism in the early 1970s. They studied, worked, and exhibited with their male counterparts including Degas, Manet, Monet, and Pissarro. The entries provide extensive coverage of the careers, critical reception, exhibition history, and growing reputations of these four female artists and discuss women Impressionists in general as they shared the challenges of becoming accepted as professional artists in late 19th-century society.

Containing nearly 900 citations of manuscripts, books, articles, reproductions, films, exhibitions, and reviews, this unique sourcebook will appeal to both art and women's studies scholars. Each artist receives a biographical sketch, chronology, information about individual and group exhibitions and reviews, and a primary and secondary bibliography, which captures details about the artist's life, career, and relationship with other artists. An art works index and names index complete the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313308482
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/28/2000
Series:	Art Reference Collection , #24
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	940L (what's this?)

About the Author

RUSSELL T. CLEMENT is Head of Art Collection at Northwestern University. His recent publications include Neo-Impressionist Painters, coauthored with Annick Houzé (Greenwood, 1999), Four French Symbolists (Greenwood, 1996), and Les Fauves (Greenwood, 1994).

ANNICK HOUZÉ is the French Cataloger at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. She coauthored along with Russell T. Clement Neo-Impressionist Painters (Greenwood, 1999).

CHRISTIANE ERBOLATO-RAMSEY is Fine Arts Librarian, Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Women Impressionists Chronology, 1840-1927
Common Abbreviations
Women Impressionists in General: Art Works Index
Personal Names Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume, more than a bibliography, incorporates timelines, bibliographical information including primary and secondary material and exhibition information, and biographical sketches for women impressionists, focusing specifically on Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and Eva Gonzal<'e>s. The authors, all professionals in academic libraries in fields related to the arts, provide brief annotations to many of the works listed in the bibliographies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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