Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the politics of domesticity /
"Highly influential, and - as this book shows - also politically engaged, the art of the Nabis (1888-1900) lay the groundwork for the transition from impressionism to modernism in French art. This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of domesticity in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2025.
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| Series: | Material culture of art and design.
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| Summary: | "Highly influential, and - as this book shows - also politically engaged, the art of the Nabis (1888-1900) lay the groundwork for the transition from impressionism to modernism in French art. This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of domesticity in the Intimiste art of Édouard Vuillard and the Nabis. Personal in motif and decorative in form, Francesca Berry's extensive historical research and skilled visual analysis reveal the social and political, sometimes even feminist, meanings of these artworks. Transcending the structural repression of domesticity in histories of modernist art, this book powerfully overturns residual myths of aesthetic introspection and social retreat that for too long have been attached to Nabi Synthetism"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350186736 1350186732 9781350186774 1350186775 |