Jimerson Painting her pleasure

Three women artists and the nude in avant-garde Paris
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5984-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Painters Marie Vassilieff, Émilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jimerson, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 'Ni homme, ni femme': Marie Vassilieff’s androgynous bodies
2 Painting pleasure: Émilie Charmy and an aesthetics of female jouissance
3 Suzanne Valadon and the embodied female subject
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Jimerson, PhD is a Paris-based art historian specialising in women artists and modern European art. Her work has been recognised through grants from the Mellon Foundation as well as a Fulbright Scholarship to France. Jimerson has contributed to exhibitions on women artists at museums such as the Barnes Foundation, Musée de Montmartre, Musée du Luxembourg and Centre Pompidou Metz. Her expertise has also led her to appearances on NBC's The Today Show and France 24 as an art history commentator. Beyond her research, she lectures to diverse audiences through her online art history platform Art with Friends and in museums across the globe.