Author: Edited by Norma Broude
Subject: Art Studies/Cultural Studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-3018-0
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3017-2
Pages: 7x10, 272 pp., 12 color and 82 b&w illus.
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Description: A collection of essays exploring the fascinating work of an Impressionist artist recently rediscovered by contemporary audiences.
Gustave Caillebotte (18481894), a long-neglected painter associated with the French Impressionists, recently emerged as a subject of intense public interest; his paintings, which have begun to exert an unexpected fascination for postmodern audiences, have become rich sites for scholarly interpretation and debate.
The essays that comprise this volume employ a variety of perspectives to examine the ways in which Caillebottes art sheds light on the formation of individual and class identities in Paris during the early years of the Third Republican era of transition marked by the triumph of capitalism and the instabilities of newly shifting gender roles in the modern world. Addressing a wide range of major paintings by Caillebotte, the contributors reveal the compound ways in which the artist encoded his images and the multiple interpretations to which these images are susceptible.
Juxtaposed to complement and challenge one another, these essays build a provocative whole as they probe issues of spectatorship and authorial intention. The contributorsall internationally known scholars and art professionalscreate an important theoretical framework for the discussion of Caillebottes work.
Norma Broude is a professor of art history at American University. Her many books include Impressionism, a Feminist Reading and Edgar Degas. She was recently honored by the College Art Association for her outstanding contributions to the field, particularly in the areas of feminist art history and gender studies.
Other contributors are:
- Douglas Druick (Searle Curator of European Painting and Prince Trust Curator of Prints and Drawings, the Art Institute of Chicago)
- Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins University).
- Tamar Garb (University College, London)
- Michael Marrinan (Stanford University)
- Kirk Varnedoe (Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art)
Praise for Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris
"This provocative collections strength resides in its rich and diverse interpretations of Caillebottes enigmatic paintings in the contexts of individual personality, social class, sexuality, and artistic style. The volume bears not only on the deeply intriguing art of Caillebotte but also on current debates concerning the cultural purposes we find at work
in the museum and the university today."Steven Z. Levine, the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and director of the Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College
