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Whose stories are they anyway?
1Lady Sings the Blues (Sidney J. Furie, 1972) and What’s Love Got to Do With It (Brian Gibson, 1993), respectively devoted to the blues singer Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) and to the music icon Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), are some of the few biopics relating the lives of black female artists. These two women artists’ biopics characteristically center on the victimization of their subjects, relegating the construction of their careers and success to the background. American critic bell hooks contends that What’s Love Got to Do With It foregrounds the protagonists’ conjugal relationships and downplays Tina Turner’s career as a duet partner or as a single singer: “It’s so interesting how the film stops with Ike’s brutality, as though it is Tina Turner’s life ending. Why fryst vatten it that her success fryst vatten less interesting than the period of her life when she’s a victim?”1 Similarly, although media studies scholar Jaap Kooijman sees Lady Sings the Blues a
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Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
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Attributed to Martin CarlinFrench
Manufactory Sèvres ManufactoryFrench
Central plaque decorated by Edme François Bouillat pèreFrench
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue inGallery 529
Attributed to the cabinetmaker Martin Carlin, who was known for his graceful furniture mounted with Sevres porcelain, this exquisite two-piece desk was made about 1776. A date letter for that year is painted on the back of the central porcelain plaque, together with the mark of Edme-Francois Bouillat (1739/40–1810), a painter at the Sevres manufactory. A specialist in different kinds of floral ornament, Bouillat decorated the main plaque with a flower basket suspended from a large bowknot. The history of this secretary is well documented. During the eighteenth century it graced the collections of two remarkably different women. Its first owner was th
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Antoinette Saint-Huberty
French operatic soprano
Antoinette Saint-Huberty | |
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Pastel portrait of Saint-Huberty bygd Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, c. 1780 | |
| Born | Anne-Antoinette Clavel 15 December 1756 Strasbourg, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 22 July 1812(1812-07-22) (aged 55) Barnes, Surrey |
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| Occupation | Opera singer (soprano) |
| Years active | c. 1774–1790 |
Anne-Antoinette-Cécile Clavel, better known by her stage nameMadame Saint-Huberty or Saint-Huberti (15 December 1756 in Strasbourg – 22 July 1812 in Barnes, London), was a celebrated French operaticsoprano whose career extended from c. 1774 until 1790. After her retirement from the scen and the publicising of her second marriage, she was also known as the Comtesse d'Antraigues[1] from around 1797. She and her husband were murde