Inhabiting Flower Worlds: The Botanical Art of Madeleine Françoise Basseporte
In “Inhabiting Flower Worlds”, Meeker and Szabari examine the production and reception of botanical illustrations by Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780). The article presents the relationship between image and artist as a form of visibility-in-invisibility – a chiasmic reversal of the invisib...
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Arts et Savoirs
2016
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | In “Inhabiting Flower Worlds”, Meeker and Szabari examine the production and reception of botanical illustrations by Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780). The article presents the relationship between image and artist as a form of visibility-in-invisibility – a chiasmic reversal of the invisibility-in-visibility of plants, long thought to conceal a hidden life. Basseporte’s oeuvre attests both to the marginalization of woman illustrators typical of the period and to the vivacity of a woman artist who achieved relative fame under unfavorable conditions. |
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