Impressionist children
Subtitle: childhood, family, and modern identity in French art
By: Greg M. Thomas.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780300112856
Subjects: Children in art; Mothers in art; Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Impressionism (Art) -- France; Painting, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives; Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: Childhood, family, and modern identity in French art
Description: Images of children and families abound in the works of the French Impressionists, from Claude Monet's portraits of his young sons to Mary Cassatt's endearing images of mother and child. In this volume, the author offers new perspectives on some of the most famous paintings in art history, explaining how they reflect the dominant social, cultural, and political aspects of Parisian middle-class life in the late 1880s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Imagining childhood; title: A model child : pictorial traditions in the nineteenth century; title: All dolled up : the commodification of childhood; title: Home and garden : the private spaces of children and mothers; title: A walk in the park : the public display of children and mothers; title: Family reunion : modern subjectivity and collective identities; title: Epilogue. The end of childhood.