Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age AmericaSarah 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. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Finding the Real American Artist | 19 |
The Culture of Display and the Taint | 46 |
Aestheticism Degeneration and the Regulation of Artistic | 79 |
Painting as Rest Cure | 120 |
Outselling the Feminine | 159 |
Winslow Homer and the American Business Spirit | 187 |
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| Title | Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America |
| Author | Sarah Burns |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0300078595, 9780300078596 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / American / General Art / History / General History / United States / 20th Century |
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