Berthe Morisot's Images of Women: ,

by Anne Higonnet

Book Overview

Berthe Morisot has taken her place as a founder of Impressionism and a leader in women's history. Like her colleagues - Cassatt, Degas, Monet, and Renoir - Morisot sought to represent the experience of modern life, a project that for her entailed rethinking what it meant to be a woman in the 19th century. Through close attention to the artist's work and its context, Anne Higonnet shows how Morisot transformed her femininity and its visual culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674067983
• ISBN13: 9780674067981
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.6"