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Modern women and Parisian consumer culture in impressionist painting / Ruth E. Iskin.

By: Iskin, RuthMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007ISBN: 0521840805 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Women in art | Consumption (Economics) in art | Fashion in art | Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Paris | Painting, French -- France -- Paris -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 759.4'4361'09034
Contents:
Introduction: Impressionism, consumer culture and modern women - Selling, seduction and soliciting the eye: Manet's Bar at the Forlies-Bergère - Degas's dazzling hat shops and artistanal ateliers: consumers, milliners and saleswomen, 1882-1910 - Inconspicuous subversion: Parisian consumer culture in 1870s city views - Nature and marketplace: Zola, Pissarro and Caillebotte - The chic Parisienne: a national brand of French fashion and femininity.
Summary: The author interprets Impressionist painting in the light of the depiction of Parisian women of the day. She looks at the consumer culture of that time, and the artists' views of women. Many paintings (sadly in black and white) are reproduced to illustrate her arguments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Impressionism, consumer culture and modern women - Selling, seduction and soliciting the eye: Manet's Bar at the Forlies-Bergère - Degas's dazzling hat shops and artistanal ateliers: consumers, milliners and saleswomen, 1882-1910 - Inconspicuous subversion: Parisian consumer culture in 1870s city views - Nature and marketplace: Zola, Pissarro and Caillebotte - The chic Parisienne: a national brand of French fashion and femininity.

The author interprets Impressionist painting in the light of the depiction of Parisian women of the day. She looks at the consumer culture of that time, and the artists' views of women. Many paintings (sadly in black and white) are reproduced to illustrate her arguments.

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