Student Research Projects

Gender Bias and the 19th Century Criticism of the Sculpture of Camille Claudel

Student Name(s)	Kathleen Mabry
Faculty Mentor(s)	Dr. Joyce Howell
Department	Art History
Course	ARTH 351: 19th-Century Art History (Honors section)

Abstract

This project explores themes in the reception of Claudel’s sculpture, in particular the expectation that she was not “intellectual” and resulting interpretations of Claudel’s nudes.