ARTH 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Women Artists, Madame De Pompadour, Judith Butler
22 Oct 2017
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The academy, the salon and the status of women artists; And heroes and heroines from antiquity: visual knowledge and enlightenment theories of progress and education. Continue looking at the hierarchies of the salon and their training and how that worked to exclude female artists - also be looking at issues of gender and performance of gender in jacques louis david"s work. Last week: elizabeth lebrun - 1706 decree in france that prohibited women from becoming members of the academy royale. History painting seen as abstract and only comprehensible to men. Life drawing (nude) could only be taught at the academy and not in private studios -- women did not have access to training. The representations of marie antoinette -- her self representation as a lady and an elite. Elisabeth vigee- lebrun self portrait 1782 - plays to past art (read article on it) - shows her education as well as her status based on her clothes.
