{"product_id":"the-exceptional-woman-mary-d-sheriff-9780226752822","title":"The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art","description":"Elisabeth Vig馥-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Exceptional Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e Mary D. Sheriff uses Vig馥-Lebrun's 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 Vig馥-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about \"woman\" and the strictures imposed on women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Engaging ancien-r馮ime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vig馥-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary D. Sheriff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226752828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226752822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.47w x 0.86d","brand":"Mary D. Sheriff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476836016383,"sku":"9780226752822","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95090e4b-6783-444f-81ce-77b5294a7472.jpg?v=1715918298","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-exceptional-woman-mary-d-sheriff-9780226752822","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}