1st Edition

Impressionism: A Feminist Reading The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

By Norma Broude Copyright 1998
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

     An original interpretation of Impressionism and nineteenth-century art and culture by a noted feminist art historian. This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the crit

    Preface -- Introduction -- Impressionism and Romanticism -- Thematic Continuities -- Effect and Emotion in Romantic and Impressionist Painting -- Effect and Finish: The Evolution of the Impressionist Style -- Impressionism and Science -- Romantic versus Normal Science in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Science and the Arts -- The Optical as a Path to the Personal: The Writings of Duranty, Martelli, and Laforgue -- The Gendering of Impressionism -- The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century -- Impressionism and Symbolism -- The Republican Defense of Science and The Regendering of Impressionism -- Impressionism and Modernism

    Biography

    Norma Broude is a professor of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and is a leading scholar in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992).