Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622
Subtitle: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (The Discovery Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780520228412
Subjects: Gender studies; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; c 1600 to c 1700; Gentileschi, Artemisia,; Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; History - Baroque & Rococo; European; Art / General; History - General; 1593-1652 or 3; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Thanks to the prominence of the early Susanna and the Judiths, Artemisia's female characters are best known as forceful women who energetically protest their circumstances or do something radical to improve them.
Description: "Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it.

Garrard explains differences in the artist's presentation of women in the two paintings as motivated by the same thing: Artemisia's intense ambition to excel as an artist in a culture that insisted upon sexualizing her identity. She describes the complex interaction between the artist and her audience as a reactive dynamic of creation and reception that continues into the present era."--BOOK JACKET.