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Morisot's Modernism and Impressionist Art: Interiors, Relationships and Aesthetics

Morisot's Modernism and Impressionist Art: Interiors, Relationships and Aesthetics

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Art

Art HistoryEuropean Art

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ISBN10: 1032252170
ISBN13: 9781032252179
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 28 2025
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.99
Language: English

This volume reframes French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offers a new interpretation of Impressionism and of modernist aesthetics.

Claire Moran utilizes close visual analyses of artworks, in particular those of family, friends and domestic servants; textual analysis of Morisot's journals and letters; investigation of late nineteenth-century advice manuals, magazines and advertisements in relation to Morisot's life and work; examination of house floor plans and gardens; and the study of specific household objects that recur in her work and their history. This multi-pronged method of analysis, grounded in Morisot's lived experience, allows a new understanding of Morisot's art to emerge, one that will not only highlight the modernity of her aesthetics, but also question both public and critical assumptions about Impressionism.

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