ILS-531 Indexing & abstracting

©2005 Amy Proni
and Susanna Cowan
Abstract analysis
Main index
Special project: index for NCAW
Thesaurus review

This index was created as a joint project with classmate Susanna Cowan for the course ILS-531, Indexing and abstracting, taught by Dr. Y. Q. Liu, Southern Connecticut State University, Spring, 2005.

Assignment: Index a group of electronic documents/web sites on a topic of your interest. The web indexing project will need to use both recall and precision techniques. The total of your index terms should be less than 5% of the total words/pages of document(s)/web sites that you have selected, and the total words of the selected documents/websites should be a minimum of 6000 words (8 pages); preferably more.


Special project 
An index for the article Slavery is a Woman, by James Smalls, which appeared in the online journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, v3(1), Spring 2004



Notes on presentation
Combined index
Index:
Smalls

Index:
Floyd
Index:
Brzyski
Index:
Menon
Index:
van der Plaat

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Notes on the presentation of this index
Individual indexes for each article. These individual indexes are intended to make our index usable. Although we have yet to hear back from the editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, we still have hopes that she will respond and express interest in the work we have done. These individual indexes could be “attached” to each article for the use of journal readers and wouldn’t require the publisher to create a full-fledged online index for the entire journal. Our aim in providing two formats is to provide the greatest flexibility for the potential use of this index. Whereas the cumulative index can be viewed as a stand-alone object; the individual indexes can be viewed as guides intended to be used with particular articles.

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Individual index (Smalls), page 1
The following index is for the article by James Smalls: Slavery is a Woman. (NCAW, vol. 3, no. 1, article 1)
Note: index “page” numbers are actually references to paragraphs, as each article is composed of consecutively arranged paragraphs.

A
abolitionists, French, 30. See also Société des Amis des Noirs; slavery
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Paris), 20
   women’s admittance to, 18
Academy Française. See Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
aestheticism in contrast to the political, 11
   politics of, 63
Africa (Delaplanche), 36
Africa (Delaplanche) [illustration] (fig. 6), 36
Africanism. See race: exoticization of
Afrique, or Why Be Born a Slave? (Carpeaux), 36
Afrique, or Why Be Born a Slave? (Carpeaux) [illustration] (fig. 5), 36
allegory. See under body (female); gender; race; portraits; slavery
Amazons, 38. See also body (female)
Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d’, 18
   director, Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Paris), 18
Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire
art critics
   Boutard, Jean-Baptiste: on Benoist, 14
   Esménard, Joseph-Etienne: on Benoist, 22
   Neergaard, Bruun: on Leroulx-Delaville (Benoist), 22
   praise Portrait d’une négresse (Benoist), 7
   Thévenin, Charles: on Benoist, 14
Art, European. 19th century
   standard reprensentation of blacks, 7
Art, French. See also Sculpture, French; Painting, French; Painters, French; women artists; women painters
   exhibitions. See also Salons (art)
   Exposition de la Jeunesse (Paris), 19–20
Art, Rococo, 19, 21, 23
Aubert du Bayet, Jean Baptiste Annibal, 30

B
Belley, Jean Baptiste, 10–11
Benoist, Marie Guilhelmine, 1
   background, 5
   Benoist, Pierre-Vincent (husband), 5
   early works, 7, 19
   instructed by David, 19
   Leroulx-Delaville, Joseph (uncle), 5
   Leroulx-Delaville, René (father), 5
   mentored by Vigée-Lebrun, 19
   royalist connections, 5
   viewed by art critics, 22
   Works
     Clarissa Harlowe at the Archers, 20
     Farewell of Psyche, 20
     Innocence Between Virtue and Vice, 20
     Portrait d’une negresse, 1–64
     Portrait d’une negresse [illustration] (fig. 1), 1
     Portrait d’une négresse praised by critics, 7
Benoist, Marie-Guillemine. See Benoist, Marie Guilhelmine
Benoist, Pierre-Vincent
   background, 5
body (female)
   Amazons, 38
   and racism and exoticism, 40
   as political allegory, 36–38
   eroticism of, 36–39
Boizot, Simon-Louis
Moi libre aussi (man), 49
Moi libre aussi (man) [illustration] (fig. 9), 49
Moi libre aussi (woman), 49
Moi libre aussi (woman) [illustration] (fig. 10), 49
Boutard, Jean-Baptiste, 14, 17, 40
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 30

C
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 59
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
   Afrique, or Why Be Born a Slave?, 36
   Afrique, or Why Be Born a Slave? [illustration] (fig. 5), 36

C (continued)
Citoyen Belley. See Belley, Jean Baptiste
Clarissa Harlowe at the Archers (Benoist), 20
class (social). See social classes
Classical. See revival: Classical
colonialism, 8–10
    and feminism. See also race: allegorical use of
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 30, 33
Sur l’admission des femmes au droit de cité (On the Admission of Women to Civil Rights), 30

D
David, Jacques-Louis, 1, 19–20, 21–22
   influence on women artists, 19–23
   instructed Benoist, 19
   Portrait of Madame Charle-Louis Trudaine, 20
David, Louis. See David, Jacques-Louis
de Flahaut de la Billarderie, Charles Claude
See Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d’, 18
Déclaration des droits de la femme (Declaration of the Rights of Woman) (Gouges), 27
Delacroix, Eugène, 1
Delaplanche, Eugène
Africa, 36
Africa [illustration] (fig. 6), 36
Dialogics, 9, 60
Diderot, Denis, 30
Doy, Gen, 40, 54
Duras, Claire de. See Duras, Claire de Durfort,
duchesse de
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 26

E
Esménard, Joseph-Etienne, 22
ethnography, 34, 36, 38
Exposition de la Jeunesse (Paris), 19, 20. See also Art, French. 19th century: exhibitions; Salons (art)

F
Farewell of Psyche (Benoist), 20
feminist movement, 30
   artistic representation of, 22, 25–64
   France, 4
     and backlash, 32
   France and England, 27
   in 19th century France, 25, 26, 54
Foster, Hal, 62
Foster, Helen, 45
Foucault, Michel, 15
France
   and slavery, 55
   Colonies; slavery, 4, 6, 10, 34–35, 61
   Colonies; slavery revolt, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 30
   Estates General, 5
French Academy. See Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
French Revolution, 5, 10
   allegories of, 15, 35
   and feminism, 25, 54
   Phrygian cap and, 43, 49–54
   Reign of Terror, 25

G
Gaze, the
   feminist theories of, 41–42, 55–62
   of portrait’s subject, 57
gender. See also body (female); feminist movement; French Revolution: Phrygian cap and; neoclassicism: gender and; race; social classes; Gaze, the; colonialism
   allegorical treatments of, 7, 10, 34, 36–48, 52–54
   artistic representation of, 1–64
   definitions of, 15
   genre and, 17, 21
   of artists, 16, 19, 54
   patriarchy, 7–8, 23, 38, 55–57, 61, 64
   politics and, 3, 33, 35
Gérard, Marguerite, 2
Géricault, Théodore, 1
Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
   Portrait du Citoyen Belley, ex-représentant des colonies, 10–11
   Portrait du Citoyen Belley, ex-représentant des colonies [illustration] (fig. 4), 10
Goldberg, David Theo, 15
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Individual index (Smalls), page 2
G (continued)
Gouges, Olympe de, 25–30, 33
   Déclaration des droits de la femme (Declaration of the Rights of Woman), 27
   executed, 25
Guyomar, Pierre, 30–31
   Partisan de l’Egalité politique entre les individus, 30–31

H
Haiti, 30
headdress (African), 1. See also French Revolution; Phrygian cap and
   as symbol of racial otherness, 43–45
   as symbol of women’s labor, 45–47
   headwrap, American South, 46
   headwrap, Caribbean, 46
   origins and function of, 45–46
   reflection of class, 48
   used by Slaves, 43–47
   worn by women artists, 47

I
Innocence Between Virtue and Vice (Benoist), 20

J
Jay, Martin, 59
Journal des débats, 17

K
Korshak, Yvonne, 50–51

L
Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde, 2
Leroulx-Delaville, Joseph, 5
Leroulx-Delaville, Marie-Guillemine. See Benoist, Marie Guilhelmine
Leroulx-Delaville, René, 5
Leroux-Delaville, Marie-Guillemine. See Benoist, Marie Guilhelmine
Lettre sur la situation des Beaux-Arts en France (Neergaard), 22
Louis XVI, King of France, 5

M
Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves (Nattier), 7
Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves (Nattier) [illustration] (fig. 2) (fig. 3, detail), 7
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
   executed, 25
misogyny, 34
Modernism (Aesthetic), 15
Moi libre aussi (man) (Boizot), 49
Moi libre aussi (man) (Boizot) [illustration] (fig. 9), 49
Moi libre aussi (woman) (Boizot), 49
Moi libre aussi (woman) (Boizot) [illustration] (fig. 10), 49
Mongez, Angélique, 2, 23
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 30
Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1

N
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 4
   Code Napoléon, 4
   elimination of women’s rights, 27
nationalism
   France, 15, 24
   in art, 15
Nattier, Jean-Marc
   Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves, 7
   Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves (detail) [illustration] (fig. 3), 7
   Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath Attended by Slaves [illustration] (fig. 2), 7
Neergaard, Bruun
   Lettre sur la situation des Beaux-Arts en France, 22
   views on Leroulx-Delaville (Benoist), 22
Neoclassicism (Art), 20–23, 33, 38, 53

O
Orientalism. See race: exoticization of
Other (philosophy). See racial Other

P
Painters, French. 18th century, 2, 7
Painters, French. 19th century, 2
Partisan de l’Egalité politique entre les individus (Guyomar), 30–31
patriarchy. See gender: patriarchy
Peace Bringing Back Abundance (Vigée-Lebrun), 37
Peace Bringing Back Abundance (Vigée-Lebrun) [illustration] (fig. 7), 37
phallocentrism. See gender: patriarchy
Pollock, Griselda, 8, 41–42, 44
Portrait du Citoyen Belley, ex-représentant des colonies (Girodet de Roussy-Trioson), 10–11
Portrait du Citoyen Belley, ex-représentant des colonies (Girodet de Roussy-Trioson) [illustration] (fig. 4), 10
Portrait of Madame Charle-Louis Trudaine (David), 20
Portrait of Mme. D’Aguesseau (Vigée-Lebrun), 37
portraits
   allegories in, 1–64
Prix de Rome, 18
prizes (art). See individual prize names
R
race. See also gender; slavery; social classes
   aestheticization of, 40
   allegorical use of, 34–54
   artistic representations of, 1–64
   black women in art as servants, 6, 7, 11, 36
   definitions of, 14–15
   exoticization of, 8, 10, 44–45, 59, 63
   hierarchies of, 13
   politics and, 35
   relationship to social class, 3, 6, 9, 21, 26, 55–57
   sexualization of black women, 39
racial Other, 8, 9, 10, 16, 36, 60
Reign of Terror. See French Revolution: Reign of Terror
revival
   Classical, 9, 20, 34, 38, 51–52. See also Neoclassicism (Art)
Rose, Jacqueline, 56
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 28, 30

S
Salons (art), 7
   female artists and, 61
   Salon of 1791, 20
Sculpture, French. 19th century, 36
Self-Portrait (Vigée-Lebrun), 47
Self-Portrait (Vigée-Lebrun) [illustration] (fig. 8), 47
sexes. See gender
slavery. See also colonialism, gender, race, social classes
   abolition, 4, 49
   allegorical treatment of, 11, 35–54
   artistic representation of, 7, 1–64
   conditions of, 10, 34–35
   France
     and French law, 6
     colonies and, 4, 6, 49, 61
     debates on, 3, 12–15, 25, 30
     emancipation, 4
     reinstatement, 4
   revolt, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 30, 49
   women as analogous to, 3, 4, 23–27, 30, 32, 58, 64

S
Smalls, James
   Slavery is a Woman: “Race,” Gender, and Visuality in Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse, 1–64
social classes and nationalism, 15. See also gender: relationship to social class; race: relationship to social class
   aesthetic tastes of, 7, 25
   and racial Other, 6, 9
   gender and, 2–3, 6, 9, 26, 54–55
   hierarchies of, 13
   of women artists, 3, 15–17
   represented in art, 8, 16, 55
   stereotypes of, 16
Société des Amis des Noirs, 30, 32, 33. See also abolitionists, French
Société des artistes français. See Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. See Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Spivak, Gayatri, 39
Staël, Germaine de. See Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 26
Sur l’admission des femmes au droit de cité (On the Admission of Women to Civil Rights) (Condorcet), 30

T
Thévenin, Charles, 14, 40

V
Vallayer-Coster, Anne, 2
Vallayer-Coster, Dorothee Anne. See Vallayer-Coster, Anne
Venus Pudica, 42
Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth Louise, 2, 21
   mentor to Benoist, 19
   Peace Bringing Back Abundance, 37
   Peace Bringing Back Abundance [illustration] (fig. 7), 37
   Portrait of Mme. D’Aguesseau, 37
   Self-Portrait, 47
   Self-Portrait [illustration] (fig. 8), 47
Vincent, Mme. Adélaïde des Vertus. See Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Wollstonecraft), 27–28
Voltaire, 30

W
Weston, Helen, 10
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 27–30
   Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A, 27–28
women. See also women artists; women painters
   executed, 25
   France; social conditions, 18th century, 2, 4
   France; social conditions, 19th century, 2
women artists, 23. See also women; women painters
   France; social conditions, 18th century, 2
   France; social conditions, 19th century, 2
women painters. See also women; women artists
   France, 2

Y
Young, Robert, 59
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