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Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, Intimate Encounters contains five essays written by specialists from a variety of disciplines, which are followed by fifty-one full catalog entries on the paintings included in the show. The essays delve into such matters as art criticism and the presence of women in cultural life (Richard Rand), the family and the ideology of sentimentalism (Sarah Maza), the influence of innovative theater on genre painting (Mark Ledbury), the debate over women's rights (Virginia Swain), and the production and marketing of prints to a growing art audience (Anne L. Schroder). Through a series of innovative and lively essays dealing largely with aspects of art, gender, and politics in the decades preceding the French Revolution, Intimate Encounters enables us to appreciate genre paintings anew: although they are almost always attractive to the eye, sometimes to the point of appearing fanciful, the paintings also bear the intellectual imprint of turbulent times. the interactions of "ordinary" people--nonhistorical, nonmythic figures--within the family and in romantic encounters. We learn that genre painters tended to infuse their depictions of intimacy with moral and ideological significance. Their imagery coincided with fundamental debates over gender roles and relationships, the family, child-rearing, and illicit versus conjugal love, topics that were crucial to such writers and social commentators as Rousseau, Diderot, and Laclos.
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"Among the most memorable images of the Dutch Golden Age are the genre paintings by Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries. Their elegant renderings of men and women writing letters, playing music, and tending to their daily rituals possess a humanity and immediacy that feel both relevant and yet timeless ... inspired by the exhibition Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry (2017-2018)"
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"Among the most memorable images of the Dutch Golden Age are the genre paintings by Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries. Their elegant renderings of men and women writing letters, playing music, and tending to their daily rituals possess a humanity and immediacy that feel both relevant and yet timeless ... inspired by the exhibition Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry (2017-2018)"
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Painting --- anno 1800-1899 --- Russian Federation --- Genre painting --- -Genre painting, Russian --- Russian genre painting --- Genre paintings --- Figure painting --- Russia --- Genre painting, Russian --- Genre painting [Russian ] --- 19th century
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Genre painting --- History --- Genre painting, European --- CDL --- 75.03 --- European genre painting --- European genre paintings, ca 1500-1948 Critical studies
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Landscape painting, Austrian --- Genre painting, Austrian --- Austria
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