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OverviewThe first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era A Revolution on Canvas argues that women artists professionalized in unprecedented numbers during the Revolutionary era, engaging with the cultural and intellectual currents of their societies and earning substantial incomes from their work despite the obstacles they encountered. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of these artists’ careers, this groundbreaking book argues that exactly as political citizenship was being defined as a male privilege, women entered the public sphere as professional artists in significant numbers for the first time. Its subjects include a number of increasingly well-known painters, such as Angelica Kauffman, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, alongside copious other artists who were lauded in their own times but are little-known in ours. This book challenges several longstanding assumptions and myths about women’s artistic activity during this period, ultimately presenting overwhelming evidence to contend that with their art, women engaged profoundly with the cultural, political, and economic currents of the Revolutionary era, navigating institutional inequalities that were often expressly designed to exclude members of their sex in order to forge profitable artistic identities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paris Spies-GansPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781913107291ISBN 10: 1913107299 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 28 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsBy making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field. -Tabitha Barber, Art Newspaper This publication, which might be one of the most anticipated art history books of the year, draws heavily on new research and statistical analysis on the subject of women artists during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. -Sothebys.com A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history. -Royal Academy Magazine, September 2022 By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field. -Tabitha Barber, Art Newspaper Spies-Gans's exhaustive, groundbreaking research... in this beautifully produced book -Jacqueline Riding, Art Newspaper 'Top Art Books of 2022' This publication, which might be one of the most anticipated art history books of the year, draws heavily on new research and statistical analysis on the subject of women artists during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. -Sothebys.com A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history. -Royal Academy Magazine, September 2022 A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to our understanding of the history of art in the 18th century. -WSG Bulletin By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field. -Tabitha Barber, The Art Newspaper A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history. -Royal Academy Magazine, September 2022 By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field. -Tabitha Barber, The Art Newspaper By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field. -Tabitha Barber, The Art Newspaper This publication, which might be one of the most anticipated art history books of the year, draws heavily on new research and statistical analysis on the subject of women artists during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. -Sothebys.com A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history. -Royal Academy Magazine, September 2022 Author InformationParis A. Spies-Gans is a historian and an art historian. She has held fellowships at the Harvard Society of Fellows, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. Her research concentrates on the history of women, gender, and the politics of artistic expression. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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