Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

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$29.95  $27.85
Publisher
Chronicle Books
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Pages
184
Dimensions
7.5 X 9.3 X 1.0 inches | 1.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781797211879

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About the Author
Bridget Quinn is a writer, art historian, and critic. She is the author of the award-winning Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) and She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next. A graduate of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and a regular contributor to the arts magazine Hyperallergic, Quinn is a sought-after speaker on women and art. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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"Portrait of a Woman is a delightful romp through the triumphs and tragedies of the eighteenth century, magnified through the experience of one truly fascinating figure. If Adélaïde Labille-Guiard isn't already on your art historical radar, Bridget Quinn's book assures that she will be." --Jennifer Dasal, author of ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
"Strong, original, and sprightly, Portrait of a Woman is art history for our own tumultuous times. Here's Adélaïde Labille-Guiard alongside her Académie Royale counterpart Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, with no limit to just one great woman artist!" --Nell Irvin Painter, author of Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
"Portrait of a Woman marks the latest chapter in Bridget Quinn's strikingly original and, dare I say, revolutionary work that shines a light on the unsung heroes of history, namely women. The life of the artist in any era is damn hard, and none more so than the contrarians who aren't favored by patronage or luck. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's talent and ambition made her a great painter, but her sex mixed with an uncompromising nature guaranteed that she would never be one of the French neoclassical darlings. Portrait of a Woman corrects the record, as it sings of a painter worth our knowing, and proves Quinn's powerful reminder that chiaroscuro, the light and dark, is all around us." --Carol Edgarian, New York Times-bestselling author of Vera
"Reading this book, I became enthralled with the extraordinary and tragic life of eighteenth-century French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Quinn subtly twins Labille-Guiard's growth as an artist with her own as a student of art, gracefully braiding memoir with real and imagined eighteenth-century scenes of painting and violent revolution and domestic life. This book is a great achievement and continues Quinn's essential work of bringing female artists to the forefront of our attention and changing the canon." --Matthew Zapruder, author of Story of a Poem and Father's Day
"Deliciously inventive.... Portraying key moments from her subject's life in vivid scenes and colorful dialogue, Quinn breathes life into her cast of characters and the anxious times in which they lived.... This excellent work of art history deserves a wide readership." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review