Morisot's Wet nurse : the construction of work and leisure in impressionist painting

Author

Nochlin, Linda

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Perspectives on Morisot

Author (monograph)

Edelstein, T. J. (Editor, Author of introductory parts, Collective Author)

Source

Perspectives on Morisot. 1990, p. 91-102, 14 ill. (1 col.)

Publisher

Hudson Hills Press in association with the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Discusses Morisot's painting of 1879 (private collection) as representing two working women confronting each other across the body of "their" child--in both cases producing a product (the milk, the painting) for profit. Argues that the ambiguities in the picture may have as much to do with the contradictions inscribing contemporary mythologies of work and leisure and with the way that ideologies of gender intersect with these paired notions as they do with Morisot's personal feelings and attitudes.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- France
• Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895
• Painting
• Wet Nurse
• Collections
• France
• 1800-1900
• Work
• Leisure
• Iconography
• Wet nurses
• Gender (sex)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- France
• Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895
• Peinture
• La Nourrice
• Collections
• France
• 1800-1900
• Travail
• Loisirs
• Iconographie
• Nourrices
• Sexe (catégorie)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00428315

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