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Title: Artemisia Gentileschi by Mary D. Garrard ISBN: 0-691-00285-1 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just Read the Paintings for yourself
Comment: If you want to travel into the mind of Artemisia Gentileschi, as Garrard obviously did, this book is an incredible asset to your journey. She takes you through Artemisia's life (Rome, Florence, Naples etc.) from the very first information to her death. Garrard has her ideas, but they are hardly overtly feminist or out of context. The intelligent reader goes beyond the author anyhow and reads the paintings. This book has copies of every known letter to have been written or received by Artemisia and most of her artwork, her complete rape trial, along with comparisons to her father's work and other artists that she had contact with. It is extremely fascinating and a more complete anayalis of an artist's life that I have yet seen. ...and about Susanna- don't tell me for a minute that the woman who painted that strength of repulsion wasn't being threatened (not necessarily by Tassi but likely Cosimo or even Francesco- think about it) have you ever seen a Susanna that genuinely apalled? Most renditions of the tale feature fear, surprise, or complete oblivion (allure even). Her Susanna is truly defensive and angry; horrified and disgusted.
Rating: 2
Summary: 20th century psychology applied to a 17th century persona
Comment: It's entirely unfortunate that Garrard has come to be considered the be-all-end-all of Gentilleschi scholarship. While the hefty opus features a wealth of research and a moderately well-illustrated span of pages, Garrard's feminist arguments do not line up. Citing the artist's "rape" by Tassi as a motivating force in the creation of her paintings featuring strong female characters, Garrard corners much of her argument on the Susanna and the Elders Gentilleschi painted a full year before the encounter with Tassi. Further, Garrard casts a 20th century feminist eye, and an accusatory one at that, upon the artist and her situation. She hardly considers the psychology of the 17th century, nor the legal definitions, where "rape" and its current emotional and psychological ramifications were hardly present. Indeed, court documents and statements show the artist and her father suing for marriage to save the family name; not once is there a mention of emotional hardship, but instead purely economic. Other sources depict a heated, smitten Artemisia, who continued her affair with Tassi for a year before discovered by her father, exposed, and forced to bring legal action against tassi. Conlusion: 400 years ago, forced sexual acts had not the same social identification of today, the psychology was different, and, honestly, Garrard neglects to illustrate the other sides of Artemesia and focuses on one event defining a life of artistic creation that, while reasonable for a 20th century situation, is unfounded for a Baroque.
Rating: 5
Summary: Artemisia The Mighty
Comment: This monograph is partly responsible for the recent interest in Gentileschi's paintings and life. Artemisia was a Carravagisti, a follower of Carravagio. Her father, Oarazio, was also a painter and Artemisia benefited from his influence, giving her paintings a lushness (I know I am not being academic here, forgive me, I am not an art critic) that Caravagio's did not have. Since the first publication of this book there have been several shows of Artemisia's work in Florence. Unfortunately there has also been a very, very dishonest and badly made movie about her life, titled "Artemisia." The original edition of this book included the court transcriptions of Agostino Tassi's trial for raping Artemesia. She endured torture (thumbscrews) to verify her testimony. Tassi was convicted but released after seven months. The movie portrays Artemisia as ingenue who chases after Tassi and begs for his love and forgiveness as she is tortured. Artemisia later married, had one child and eventually moved to England to live with her father, where he was a court portrait painter.
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Title: Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (The Discovery Series) by Mary D. Garrard ISBN: 0520228413 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonne by R. Ward Bissell, R. Ward Bissell ISBN: 0271021209 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi by Keith Christiansen, Orazio Gentileschi, Judith Mann ISBN: 0300090773 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland ISBN: 0142001821 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre, Liz Heron ISBN: 0802138578 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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