{"product_id":"exceptional-woman","title":"Exceptional Woman","description":"Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favourite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine. In this study Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigee-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of \"woman-artist\" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in 18th-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigee-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about \"woman\" and the strictures imposed on women. Engaging ancien-regime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigee-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218506109272,"sku":"9780226752822","price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226752822_ee6376d2-2f9c-4477-a226-c713ce621f76.jpg?v=1771308045","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exceptional-woman","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}