{"product_id":"the-exceptional-woman-elisabeth-vigeelebrun-and-the-cultural-politics-of-art","title":"The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eElisabeth Vige-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter  a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette  and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist  she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine.  In The Exceptional Woman  Mary D. Sheriff uses Vige-Lebruns career to explore the contradictory position of \"woman-artist\" in the moral  philosophical  professional  and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits  Sheriff shows how Vige-Lebruns images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about \"woman\" and the strictures imposed on women.  Engaging ancien-rgime philosophy  as well as modern feminism  psychoanalysis  literary theory  and art criticism  Sheriffs interpretations of Vige-Lebruns paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987027619893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226752828","price":36.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226752822.jpg?v=1770923221","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-exceptional-woman-elisabeth-vigeelebrun-and-the-cultural-politics-of-art","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}