Berthe Morisot's Images of Women
Author: Anne Higonnet
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKImpressionist paintings. Higonnet presents a clear picture of visual traditions that, though very much a part of Morisot's world and work, figure only marginally in art history. Amateur picture making, for instance, was enormously popular among nineteenth-century women. Higonnet locates Morisot's origins in this private practice, then traces her reactions to an industrialized feminine imagery characterized by consumption and dominated by the fashion plate. This.