French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848-1886

ISBN-13: 9781138275768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 342 str.

Anna Green

Opis

Anna Green's timely and original book demonstrates that paintings of childhood and adolescence produced in France from 1848 to 1886 are critical for understanding modernity. Manet and the Impressionists figure prominently, but more traditional and also lesser-known painters of children provide crucial context for understanding the avant garde. Green's interdisciplinary approach ensures that her book will be of interest not only to art historians but to all those concerned with the cultural and social history of childhood.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Manet's Music in the Tuileries Gardens: childhood - modernity - Paris; Working children, dangerous children; Spectacular girls: young Parisiennes of the streets and stage; 'Good little girls': 'eternal immaturity'; 'To make men of her sons': constructs of masculinity; Boys will be boys: childhood, sex, and adolescence; 'Inside the dark continent': hysterical pleasures; Conclusion: 'the child is father of the man'; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Anna Green is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia, and at Department of Art History, Norwich University College of the Arts, UK