Tamara De Lempicka's Strategic Conservatism

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" Tamara De Lempicka's Strategic Conservatism "
Von Buhr, Elizabeth Bellow, Juliet;Allen, Joanne

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1114513
Doc. No	:	TLpq2408566265
Main Entry	:	Bellow, Juliet
	:	Von Buhr, Elizabeth
Title & Author	:	Tamara De Lempicka's Strategic Conservatism\ Von Buhr, ElizabethBellow, Juliet;Allen, Joanne
College	:	American University
Date	:	2020
student score	:	2020
Degree	:	M.A.
Page No	:	73
Abstract	:	Tamara de Lempicka’s seemingly pious and traditionalist period of the late 1920s and 1930s, exemplified by paintings such as La Polonaise (1933) and The Communicant (1928), appears to be a sharp departure from the Polish émigré’s celebrated erotic nudes of the early 1920s. This thesis contextualizes this stylistic and thematic shift in de Lempicka’s oeuvre within the increasingly fraught, nationalistic, and politically conservative climate of interwar Paris. I argue that de Lempicka adapted her approach to painting to overcome the increased challenges this environment posed to foreign women artists. Her strategy, which relied upon visual ambiguity and a manipulation of conservative taste, secured her financial and professional artistic success.
Subject	:	Art history
	:	Femmes Artistes Modernes
	:	Maurice Denis
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	:	Tamara de Lempicka
Added Entry	:	Allen, Joanne