HA 301 - Fashion & Impressionism

This remarkable book profiles some 550 painters, sculptors, photographers, and women in all areas of the arts. Each illustrated entry includes a biography of the artist, a bibliography and a signed interpretive essay by one of 300 contributors from 20 countries. Essays concentrate on the artist's work, discussing specific pieces that exemplify the artist's style and activity while placing her work in an historical context. Introductory surveys focus on training and the changing conditions for women artists since the Middle Ages.

A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries.

Grandes Horizontales tells the stories of Marie Duplessis, La Presidente, La Paiva, Cora Pearl - four legendary courtesans during the reign of Napoleon III.

Richardson pens a colorful portrait of twelve of the most famous courtesans women who encrusted bathroom taps with jewels, fought duels in the Bois de Boulogne, scandalized society, influenced the press and politics, and ensnared the husbands and lovers of the most beautiful women in Paris.

Examines the lives of nineteenth-century Britain's demimonde, offering insight into the hierarchies, etiquette, and protocols of the period's courtesans, focusing on five women of influence and their social successes and decline.

This title presents a thorough analysis of how the concepts of 'woman' and 'femininity' unfold inside the broader spectrum of Impressionist painting by male as well as female artists.

Griffin traces the role and influence of courtesans in Western society from Mme. de Pompadour to Liane de Pougy to Sarah Bernhardt.

Featuring famed paintings by such Impressionist masters as Degas, Cassatt, Manet, Monet and Morisot, this delightful book revisits the world of Parisian fashion through the eyes of first-hand observers. Thematic chapters present a gallery-like ensemble of paintings that follow in the footsteps of stylish Parisians as they stroll in the parks and boulevards, meet friends at cafés, take in the theatre, relax at home and go on holiday.

The dialogue between fashion and art is illustrated here by some 120 paintings -- works by Ingres, Tissot, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Seurat and Degas among them -- and a clutch of hitherto unpublished photographs from the recently discovered archive of Disdéri.

French language resource covering the life of La Païva.

The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day.

This study of the artist's model in Paris between 1830 and 1870 incorporates three histories: a social history of professional models, a cultural history of models as social types, and an art history of representations of the model in elite and popular visual culture.

It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history.