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Female agency as the vehicle for an artistic career: Angelica Kauffmans Amor and Psyche.
Bidal, Cathryn Michelle
Bidal, Cathryn Michelle
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[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
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2016
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The career of Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman was marked by a variety of academic, commercial, and financial successes. This thesis examines Kauffman?s career and her creation of a personal brand to promote her career and artworks. I analyze Kauffman?s forays into the production of history painting, the most elite art form of the time, as well as smaller scale decorative arts. I focus on Kauffman?s 1792 painting, Amor and Psyche, to prove that Kauffman?s chaste depiction of a scene typically filled with eroticism exemplifies her personal brand. Kauffman?s brand was designed to appeal to the sensibilities of eighteenth century patrons, and also maintain visual consistency within her body of work. Amor and Psyche provides an alternate visual style to Kauffman?s contemporaries Antonio Canova, Joshua Reynolds, and Benjamin West and their treatments of the mythological scene. I attribute this difference to Kauffman?s desire to produce images that were consistent with her brand of depicting active female characters as dignified, rather than wholly sexualized.--Abstract.
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Art