Melissa Lee Hyde
Melissa Hyde's field of specialization is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European (especially French!) art, with an emphasis on cultural history, gender studies, feminist theory and the history of art criticism. She did her graduate work in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.
Melissa is currently completing two book projects, both on women artists. One is entitled, Painted by Herself: Marie-Suzanne Roslin, The Forgotten Académicienne; the other, co-authored with Mary D. Sheriff, is provisionally entitled Women in French Art. Rococo to Romanticism 1750-1830. She and Mary Sheriff are also guest curators for an exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French drawings from the Horvitz Collection, entitled Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment, slated to open at the Harn in fall 2017, which will travel to other venues.
Melissa is currently completing two book projects, both on women artists. One is entitled, Painted by Herself: Marie-Suzanne Roslin, The Forgotten Académicienne; the other, co-authored with Mary D. Sheriff, is provisionally entitled Women in French Art. Rococo to Romanticism 1750-1830. She and Mary Sheriff are also guest curators for an exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French drawings from the Horvitz Collection, entitled Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment, slated to open at the Harn in fall 2017, which will travel to other venues.
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Women’s portraits of the self
Representing knowledge and making identity in early modernity
ed. Caroline Trotot & Natania Meeker
Women’s portraits of the self
Representing knowledge and making identity in early modernity
ed. Caroline Trotot & Natania Meeker
This essay explore themes of social satire and self-parody in Les Talens du jour, one of the many drawings in the Livre de caricatures by the Saint Aubin family. This drawing satirizes “effeminate” men—specifically those who do embroidery, and relates to broader cultural anxieties about the influence of women like Mme de Pompadour. Taking into account that Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, the patriarch of the family, was himself the leading embroiderer of the day, this essay considers the ways in which Charles-Germain playfully and self-reflexively satirized himself in Les Talens du jour.