Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge
Linda Nochlin: The Surprising Boldness of Mary Cassatt, 15 April 1999
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
edited by Judith Barter.
Abrams, 376 pp., £40, November 1998,0 8109 4089 2 Show More
edited by Judith Barter.
Abrams, 376 pp., £40, November 1998,
Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women
by Griselda Pollock.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, September 1998,0 500 20317 2 Show More
by Griselda Pollock.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, September 1998,
“... of 1878 shares a certain formal identity with Whistler’s all too famous Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother (1871) in terms of pose and colour, but Cassatt’s mother is shown not staring blankly into space, an object within a world of objects, but rather in solid three-quarter view, and reading with great concentration. What ... ”