Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France (eBook)

Wendelin Guentner is professor of French literature and culture at the University of Iowa.

List of IllustrationsPreface - Wendelin GuentnerWomen Writing ArtReappearing ActsIntroduction - Wendelin GuentnerThe Ideology of the Two SpheresThe Education of GirlsThe Menace of the Bas-BleusThe Salon and Its Art CriticsThe Golden Age of Art Criticism: Society, Economics, and CultureArt Criticism as a Literary Genre: Denis DiderotThe Literary Craft of Art CriticismChapter 1 - Heather Belnap Jensen“‘C.W. . . . académicienne’: Caroline Wuiet and the Emergence of the Woman Art Critic in Postrevolutionary France” Wuiet and Authorial VoiceWhat a Woman Wants: Female SpectatorshipChapter 2 - Heather Belnap JensenAmélie-Julie Candeille’s Critical Enterprise and the Creation of “Girodet”Epistolary Art Criticism in Women’s WritingsCandeille as Corresponding CriticManaging GirodetFashioning Girodet en publiqueChapter 3 - Véronique Chagnon-BurkeWomen Art Critics during the July Monarchy (1830–1848) Art Criticism and the Paris SalonWomen Art Critics and the Parisian Cultural WorldWomen as SpectatorsBeyond Gender: Issues of Class and EducationFurther QuestionsChapter 4 - Véronique Chagnon-Burke“A Career True to Woman’s Nature”: Constructing the Woman Artist in France’s Midcentury Feminine PressWomen Artists: Class and EducationThe Mission of Women Art CriticsThe British ConnectionGender or Class?The Gender of Genius and the Artistic GenresWomen Art Critics and the (Limited) Contours of an Artistic VisionChapter 5 - Wendelin GuentnerClaude Vignon’s Salon de 1850–51: Dialogues of Art and IdeologyThe Art Critic and Her ReadersHistorical Context and Political IdeologiesSpiritual IdeologiesThe Author behind the CriticChapter 6 - Wendelin Guentner“Dieu! une plume de femme!”: Mathilde Stevens’s Impressions d’une femme au Salon de 1859A Rhetoric of SincerityTo Feel or to Think: That Is the QuestionPlaying Favorites: Critics, and Artists at the 1859 SalonA Voice of Her OwnChapter 7 - Wendelin Guentner“Marc” de Montifaud: The “esprit critique” of an esprit fortEnvisioning History PaintingGenre Painting: History Writ SmallPortraits of DegenerationThe Subjective LandscapeCorot, Pagan PoetChapter 8 - Véronique Chagnon-Burke“Tel père, telle fille”: Judith Gautier, Artist, Writer, and Art CriticJudith Gautier, Artist, and the French Art WorldJudith Gautier, Author, and the Far EastJudith Gautier, Art CriticConclusion - Wendelin GuentnerThe Ideology of the Two Spheres, RevisitedVanishing Genre?Vanishing Gender?Final ActEncoresAppendices:Biographical SketchesAppendix 1 - Amélie-Julie Candeille - Heather Belnap JensenAppendix 2 - Judith Gautier - Véronique Chagnon-BurkeAppendix 3 - Marc de Montifaud - Wendelin GuentnerAppendix 4 - Mathilde Stevens - Wendelin GuentnerAppendix 5 - Claude Vignon - Wendelin GuentnerAppendix 6 - Caroline Wuiet - Heather Belnap JensenAppendix 7 - Biographical Intersections - Wendelin Guentner