French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848–1886 (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present) - Softcover

Green, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113827576X ISBN 13: 9781138275768

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

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Reseña del editor

The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in paintings, but also in other forms of visual culture and in diverse written discourses of the period-are critical for understanding modernity. Whilst such well-worn signifiers for modernity as the city, the dandy and the prostitute have been well mined, childhood and adolescence have not. Paintings of the young produced in France from 1848 to 1886, Green contends, inform not only our understanding of modern life but also our perception of modernist or avant-garde painting. Figuring largely are Manet and the Impressionists, as well as a gamut of more traditional painters of children who are crucial in providing context for the avant garde. Because modernity is an essentially urban phenomenon, Green's focus is primarily on the city, usually Parisian, child. The painted youth of her study are organized initially by class and gender. Then the chapters are structured according to themes (parent-child relations, modes of discipline, work, education, and play, the spectacle, sexuality) that straddle the congruences among the book's triple trajectory: the young, their modernist representations, and the experience of modernity. Green's interdisciplinary approach ensures that this book will be of interest not only to art historians but to all those concerned with the cultural and social history of childhood.

Biografía del autor

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

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 113827576X
• ISBN 13: 9781138275768
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342