{"product_id":"zdouard-vuillard-the-nabis-and-the-politics-of-domesticity-9781350186736","title":"Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of \u003ci\u003eIntimiste\u003c\/i\u003e art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by Édouard Vuillard while associated with the Nabi 'brotherhood'.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCoined by contemporary critics, '\u003ci\u003eintimisme\u003c\/i\u003e' encapsulated the shared approach of these artists to depicting intimate settings and themes. Vuillard's paintings, which are typically small, employ bold pigments and economic brushstrokes to depict female figures in tightly composed apartment interiors. Those portrayed include his mother and sister, just as wives and lovers dominate the art of other Nabis, including Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancesca Berry comparatively analyses the gender politics of Nabi art to reveal real differences. Through skilled visual interpretation she argues that Vuillard attempted a profound engagement with the material conditions of feminine domesticity in cooperation with his first and most sustained audience: women. He did so, the author reveals, in artworks that explore a complex range of feminine experiences such as sexual initiation, stillbirth, illicit work, and unceasing housework. The personal gender politics of \u003ci\u003eIntimiste\u003c\/i\u003e practice also are foregrounded. Vuillard's studio-bedroom afforded him access to quotidian femininity. But at what risks to his sister's privacy and to his mother's subjectivity? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking an artistic project of feminine domesticity also meant entering the field of politics. The 1890s was the decade of state legislation and feminist demands with respect to work in the home and women's familial rights. Personal in motif and Symbolist in form, Berry's extensive historical research reveals these artworks also to have been social and political, sometimes even feminist, in meaning. Transcending the structural repression of domesticity in histories of modernist art, this book powerfully overturns residual myths of aesthetic introspection and social retreat that for too long have been attached to Nabi Symbolism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Berry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Material Culture of Art and Design\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.41h x 6.37w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350186736","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44189304258697,"sku":"9781350186736","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d8c6c4c8-9921-44c5-8dd9-66ad345db66d.jpg?v=1748924242","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/zdouard-vuillard-the-nabis-and-the-politics-of-domesticity-9781350186736","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}