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Women in the 19th Century: Categories and Contradictions (Portfolio)
Women in the 19th Century Categories and Contradictions - Portfolio Author:Linda Nochlin, Joelle Bolloch A stunning, full-color portfolio of classic paintings of nineteenth-century women. Twenty-four full-color plates portray nineteenth-century women by celebrated painters including Cassatt, Courbet, Daumier, Gaugin, Ingres, Manet, Millet, Morisot, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Whistler. Noted art critic Linda Nochlin provides context and... more » commentary on this riveting look at women in their private and public lives. A forty-eight-page book contains analysis of each image, placing it in historical and social context. Women in the Nineteenth Century offers a stunning, unique way to trace the evolution of woman from mythological, allegorical, and religious object to worker, artist, and individual.« less