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Berthe Morisot

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the daring and innovative work of the French woman at the heart of the impressionist movement, capturing the domestic world and life in the open air

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the domestic world and found new, daring ways to paint quickly in the open air. Her work shows women as they were, to her: informal, unguarded, and not transformed or distorted for the eyes of men. The image above is one of her few self-portraits, though several portraits of her survive by other artists, chiefly her sister Edma and her brother-in-law Edouard Manet.

With

Tamar Garb
Professor of History of Art at University College London

Lois Oliver
Curator at the Royal Academy and Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Notre Dame London.

And

Claire Moran
Reader in French at Queen's University Belfast

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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Thu 13 Oct 2022 21:30
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READING LIST

Kathleen Adler and Tamar Garb, Berthe Morisot (Phaidon, 1987)

Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886 (Documentation. Vol. 1, Reviews, and vol. 2, Exhibited Works, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996)

Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant and Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Montolivet: CÉRA-nrs, 1997)

T.J. Edelstein, Perspectives on Morisot (Hudson Press, 1990)

Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot’s Images of Women (Harvard University Press, 1992)

Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (University of California Press, 1995)

Julie Manet (trans. Jane Roberts), Growing up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet (I.B.Tauris, 2017)

Claire Moran, ‘Minor Intimacies and the Art of Berthe Morisot: Impressionism, Female Friendship and Spectatorship’ (Dix-Neuf, 25:2, 2021)

Berthe Morisot (ed. Kathleen Adler and Tamar Garb), The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot (Camden Press, 1987)

Lois Oliver, Berthe Morisot: Impressionism and the Eighteenth Century (exhibition catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023)

Sylvie Patry, Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist (Rizzoli International Publications, 2018)

Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (Routledge, 2003), especially chapter ‘Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity’


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