THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH AND THE MODERN WOMAN

LECA, BENEDICT

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ISBN:978-1-904832-85-0
EAN:9781904832850
Editorial: GILES
Fecha de la edición:2010
Número de la edición: 1
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:196
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE MODERNO: SIGLOS XIV-XVIII

Focusing specifically on Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of well-known, "liberated", society women, and the way in which the artist executed these special commissions, Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman draws us away from his predominant reputation as a landscape painter. It shows how such portraits were both an affirmation by Gainsborough of his own position in the artistic world of Georgian England, and of the desire of his sitters (including leading artists, musicians, actresses and intellectuals) to be seen as self-assured progressive women. Author Benedict Leca takes as his starting point the Cincinnati Art Museum's famous and newly restored portrait of Ann Ford (1760), widely considered the finest of the masterpiece portraits created by Gainsborough at Bath in the early 1760s. He addresses this early portrait as typifying Gainsborough's comparatively permissive attitude with regard to how notorious women should be presented, and offers a compelling view of Gainsborough's peculiar manner of painting, one that established the artist as the foremost portraitist of modern life.