{"product_id":"mary-cassatt-9781904449317","title":"Mary Cassatt","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn into the male dominated world of the nineteenth century  middle-class Pennsylvania society  Mary Cassatt became a feminist and turned what was a ladys accomplishment into a profession becoming a radical painter  working in Paris and exhibiting with the Impressionists. Degas  Manet  Gauguin and Pissaro  amongst others  knew and admired her work  and yet  since her death in 1926  Cassatt has received little critical acclaim  and her importance  both personally as an individual artist and historically within the evolution of the Impressionist movement  has largely been obscured. The efforts of the feminist movement in the last decade  however  have stimulated long-deserved public and critical interest in Mary Cassatt. Griselda Pollock examines the reasons for the unjust neglect of one of Americas outstanding artistic talents. She gauges the wide variety of influences which shaped her career  from her commitment to her early oils and pastels and her study of the techniques of the Old Masters  her exploration of modernist ideas to her later interest in the methods of Japanese print-making. Despite the tremendous diversity of her sources  Cassatt pursued one theme - the depiction of women in all phases of their lives - defending the portrayal of maternity and womanhood from the charges of sentimentality. Pollock argues that through her oeuvre  Cassatt  a woman painting women  reworked with increasing power and insight the traditional iconography of woman as Madonna  as Venus and as Eve  questioning its basic assumptions and transforming women from objects to be looked at to people to be understood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932245360693,"sku":"ByrdShop_190444931X","price":99.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781904449317.jpg?v=1794221996","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mary-cassatt-9781904449317","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}