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Histoire de l'art : comment les femmes en ont été gommées
À Lille, le musée des Beaux-arts a fait l'inventaire de ses collections : sur 60 000 œuvres, seules 135 étaient signées par une femme. Alors qu'elles jouissaient d'une certaine notoriété de leur vivant, malgré les embûches qu'on destinait à leur sexe, elles ont été "effacées" après leur mort. @franceculture
"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners."
Vindication of the rights of woman
Mary Wollstonecraft died #OTD in 1797. She is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism, in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education.
"L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."
Petits Poèmes en prose
Charles Baudelaire died #OTD in 1867. French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal, which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. via @Britannica
Books translated/or by Charles Baudelaire at PG:
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..."
Frankenstein, 1818
Mary Shelley was born #OTD in 1797. Author of Frankenstein which is considered an early example of science fiction. Studies of her lesser-known works such as the biographical studies in Cabinet Cyclopedia support the view that she remained a political radical throughout her life.
