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Book SynopsisThe definitive introduction to the artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory. A close ally of Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt was the only American painter at the heart of the Impressionist group in Paris. Highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic, Cassatt was a forthright advocate for womenâs intellectual, creative and political emancipation. She brought her discerning gaze and compositional inventiveness across many media to the subtle social interactions of women in public and private spaces, such as at the theatre, and in moments of intimacy with children, where she was one of the most attentive and unsentimental analysts of the infant body and the childâs emerging personality. Tracing key moments in Cassattâs long career, art historian Griselda Pollock highlights Cassattâs extensive artistic training across Europe, analysing her profound study of Old Masters while revealing her
Trade Review'Subtle and incisive … manages brilliantly to locate Cassatt culturally both in general and in relation to the intertextual “web of references to past and present”' - Linda Nochlin, London Review of Books
