{"product_id":"a-revolution-on-canvas-the-rise-of-women-artists-in-britain-and-france-1760-1830-9781913107291","title":"A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and selling their work in unprecedented numbers. Many rose to the top of their nations' artistic spheres and earned substantial incomes from their work, regularly navigating institutional inequalities expressly designed to exclude members of their sex. In the first collective, critical history of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era, Paris Spies-Gans explores how they engaged with and influenced the mainstream cultural currents of their societies at pivotal moments of revolutionary change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through an interdisciplinary analysis of the experiences of these narrative painters, portraitists, sculptors, and draughtswomen, this book challenges longstanding assumptions about women in the history of art. Importantly, it demonstrates that women built profitable artistic careers by creating works in nearly every genre practiced by men, in similar proportions and to aesthetic acclaim. It also reveals that hundreds of women studied with male artists, and even learned to draw from the nude. Where traditional histories have left a void, this generously illustrated book illuminates a lively world of artistic production. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring an extensive range of these artists' paintings, drawings, sculptures, and writings, alongside contemporary prints, satires, and works by their male peers, \u003ci\u003eA Revolution on Canvas\u003c\/i\u003e transforms our understanding of the opportunities and identities of women artists of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis A. Spies-Gans\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and an art historian. She has held fellowships at the Harvard Society of Fellows, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. Her research concentrates on the history of women, gender, and the politics of artistic expression.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Mellon Centre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670454407442,"sku":"9781913107291","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5b930d6-ee55-41a0-baea-49302a54924a.jpg?v=1733779371","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-revolution-on-canvas-the-rise-of-women-artists-in-britain-and-france-1760-1830-9781913107291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}