Body, place, and self in nineteenth-century painting /
By: Sidlauskas, Susan.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: xvi, 230 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521770246 (hb); 9780521770248:.Subject(s): Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Themes, motives | Space (Art) | Personal space | Personal space in art | Identity (Psychology) in artDDC classification: 759.05Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 759.05 SID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0045784 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-221) and index.
Body into space: Lecoq de Boisbaudran and the rhetoric of embodiment -- Degas and the sexuality of the interior -- John Singer Sargent's interior abysses: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit -- The "surface of existence": Edouard Vuillard's Mother and sister of the artist -- Walter Sickert's Ennui: interiority without self, and place without body.
This text shows how and why the painted domestic interior, with figures positioned in provocative, even disturbing manners, figured so prominently in contemporary visual culture.