Inventing the modern artist: art and culture in gilded age America

Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Ceci...

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1. Verfasser: Burns, Sarah (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 1996
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Zusammenfassung:Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, she investigates how artists reacted to the growing power of the media, to an expanding consumer society, to the need for a specifically American artist type, and to the problem of gender.
Beschreibung:VIII, 380 S. Ill.
ISBN:0300064454

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