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Author: Paige Dempsey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Feminism and art Languages : en Pages : 76
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"The Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most famous female painters of Western history. She is known for her use of dramatic visual narrative and Caravaggisti techniques, for being the victim of sexual assault at the age of seventeen, and for supporting herself with an artistic career during a time when women rarely had the ability to do so. Her paintings are particularly famous for being notably different than her male peers' work. Gentileschi's female subjects are given strong narrative focus and realistic physicality and emotion. Her heroines are less idealized, less demonized, and more humanized than they are in depictions by other Baroque - predominantly male - painters. Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes especially differs drastically from most other paintings inspired by the same story, including one by the Baroque artistic leader of the time, Caravaggio. Why did she paint her women differently than most other Baroque painters? I theorize that she is operating as a visual rhetor, crafting a message on the complexity of women, and presenting it to the patriarchal world. Using Lloyd Bitzer's theory of the rhetorical situation, I examine how Gentileschi understood her own effectiveness as a rhetor, how she navigated constraints placed upon her rhetoric, and how she crafted her paintings so they could best reach her rhetorical audience. She depicted a reality in which women were multifaceted, fully realized individuals and presented it to a society which believed the opposite. In this way, her art was a message of ideological and even political dissent"--Provided by author.
Author: Paige Dempsey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Feminism and art Languages : en Pages : 76
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"The Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most famous female painters of Western history. She is known for her use of dramatic visual narrative and Caravaggisti techniques, for being the victim of sexual assault at the age of seventeen, and for supporting herself with an artistic career during a time when women rarely had the ability to do so. Her paintings are particularly famous for being notably different than her male peers' work. Gentileschi's female subjects are given strong narrative focus and realistic physicality and emotion. Her heroines are less idealized, less demonized, and more humanized than they are in depictions by other Baroque - predominantly male - painters. Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes especially differs drastically from most other paintings inspired by the same story, including one by the Baroque artistic leader of the time, Caravaggio. Why did she paint her women differently than most other Baroque painters? I theorize that she is operating as a visual rhetor, crafting a message on the complexity of women, and presenting it to the patriarchal world. Using Lloyd Bitzer's theory of the rhetorical situation, I examine how Gentileschi understood her own effectiveness as a rhetor, how she navigated constraints placed upon her rhetoric, and how she crafted her paintings so they could best reach her rhetorical audience. She depicted a reality in which women were multifaceted, fully realized individuals and presented it to a society which believed the opposite. In this way, her art was a message of ideological and even political dissent"--Provided by author.
Author: Mary D. Garrard Publisher: ISBN: 9780691040509 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 607
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Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.
Author: Mary D. Garrard Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520228413 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 212
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"In this admirable work, at once passionately argued and lucidly written, Professor Garrard effectively considers the social, psychological, and formal complexity of the shaping and reshaping not only of the artist's feminine and feminist identity in the misogynistic society of the seventeenth century, but also of that identity in the discipline of art history today."—Steven Z. Levine, author of Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection "Mary Garrard's detailed investigation into attribution problems in two Artemisia Gentileschi paintings brilliantly interweaves connoisseurship, constructions of gender and artistic identity, and historical analysis. The result is a richer and more nuanced vision of the best-known female artist in western history before the modern era, and an important contribution to feminist studies." —Whitney Chadwick, author of Women, Art, and Society "In her new book, Garrard has taken two bold steps that challenge much received opinion in the 'discipline' of art history. Analyzing two of Gentileschi's least violent but most moving images, Garrard argues that the painter's personality is discernible no less in the subjects and their interpretation than in the 'style' of the works; consideration of both aspects is essential to understanding the meaning of these extraordinary pictures and her authorship. Perhaps even more important, Garrard makes crystal clear that Artemisia Gentileschi, far from a 'good woman painter,' was one of the major visual thinkers of her time."—Irving Lavin, co-author with Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, of La Liturgia d'Amore: Immagini dal Canto dei Cantici nell'arte di Cimabue, Michelangelo, e Rembrandt (Modena, 2000) "Developing her earlier methodologies and revising some conclusions, Garrard clarifies her distinct theoretical approach and voice among feminist critiques of art history. In this text, which reads in part like a forensic mystery, Garrard builds not only an argument for attributions of particular works, but a new understanding of Gentileschi herself at a particular moment in history."—Hilary Robinson, editor of Visibly Female: Feminism and Art Today "One of our most distinguished feminist art historians brings contemporary gender studies to bear on traditional paintings connoisseurship to show how attributions to female artists have often been governed by tacit cultural assumptions about the limitations of women. Her case makes compelling reading for anyone interested in early modern society, culture, women and art in Italy, and in the problematics of feminism and art history."—Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, author of Leonardo e la Scultura "By revealing a great woman painter's ways of expressing uniqueness while negotiating expectations, Mary Garrard helps each of us with the subtleties of remaining authentic while living in the world. Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622 is art history to live by."—Gloria Steinem
Author: Jesse M. Locker Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300259050 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 249
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An important reassessment of the later career and life of a beloved baroque artist Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–ca. 1656) has figured prominently in the art historical discourse of the past two decades. This attention to Artemisia, after many years of scholarly neglect, is partially due to interest in the dramatic details of her early life, including the widely publicized rape trial of her painting tutor, Agostino Tassi, and her admission to Florence’s esteemed Accademia del Disegno. While the artist’s early paintings have been extensively discussed, her later work has been largely dismissed. This beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book provides a revolutionary look at Artemisia’s later career, refuting longstanding assumptions about the artist. The fact that she was semi-illiterate has erroneously led scholars to assume a lack of literary and cultural education on her part. Stressing the importance of orality in Baroque culture and in Artemisia’s paintings, Locker argues for her important place in the cultural dialogue of the seventeenth century.
Author: Artemisia Gentileschi Publisher: Getty Publications ISBN: 1606066633 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 196
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A compendium of writings, letters, and records illuminating the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the most influential female painter of the Italian Baroque. Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi presents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) was an Italian painter known for the naturalism with which she depicted the female body and her use of rich colors and chiaroscuro. Born in Rome, she was trained by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi, and was working professionally by the time she was a teenager. In a period when women artists very rarely achieved success in their field, she was commissioned by royalty across Europe and was the first woman to become a member of Florence’s prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, later becoming an educator in the arts. Lending further insight into the extraordinary life of this trailblazing artist, this volume presents an absorbing collection of letters, biographies, and court testimonies supplemented with essays written by contemporaries, several of which are published here in English for the first time. The vivid illustrations include three works that have only recently been attributed to Gentileschi. An introduction by Sheila Barker, founding director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists, contextualizes these texts and discusses Gentileschi’s legacy.
Author: Mary D. Garrard Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1789142393 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 321
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An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women’s political history. Mary D. Garrard, noted Gentileschi scholar, shows that the artist most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works, and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.
Author: Mieke Bal Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226035816 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 272
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An early icon of feminist art history, the work of Artemisia Gentileschi has been largely obscured by the sensational details of her life. In this volume the contributors attempt to give a more balanced view & to approach a genuine appreciation of Artemisia's considerable artistic talents.
Author: Jonathan Jones Publisher: Laurence King Publishing ISBN: 178627793X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 150
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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art. ‘Lives of the Artists’is a new series of brief artists biographies from Laurence King Publishing. The series takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist’s life.
Author: Paige Dempsey
Author: Paige Dempsey
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Author: Jesse M. Locker
Author: Artemisia Gentileschi
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Author: Mieke Bal
Author: R. Ward Bissell
Author: Jonathan Jones