Off the pedestal : new women in the art of Homer, Chase and Sargent /
Off the pedestal : new women in the art of Homer, Chase and Sargent /
edited by Holly Pyne Connor.
- xv, 158 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, N.J., Mar. 18-June 18, 2006; at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, July-October 2006; and at the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4, 2006-Feb. 5, 2007.
Not at home : the nineteenth-century new woman / Winslow Homer's ambiguously new women / The manly new woman / Holly Pyne Connor -- Sarah Burns -- Mary W. Blanchard.
"Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong, self-reliant women were virtually, if not completely, absent from the visual arts and literature." "Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the United States brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in much the same way that they did for blacks. As women began attending college in greater numbers, entering professions previously dominated by men, and demanding greater personal freedom, these "new women" were featured more frequently in the visual arts and in a manner that made it clear that they had ambitions outside the domestic sphere." "Featuring more than seventy color and black-and-white images, Off the Pedestal is a window into the ways that identities and attitudes are forged on the stage of visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
0813536960 (hbk.) : £47.50 0813536979 (pbk.) : £21.95
VL161498
GBA606226 bnb
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 --Exhibitions.
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 --Exhibitions.
Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 --Exhibitions.
Women in art--Exhibitions
Feminism in art--Exhibitions
Art, American--19th century--Exhibitions
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions
704.042097309034
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, N.J., Mar. 18-June 18, 2006; at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, July-October 2006; and at the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4, 2006-Feb. 5, 2007.
Not at home : the nineteenth-century new woman / Winslow Homer's ambiguously new women / The manly new woman / Holly Pyne Connor -- Sarah Burns -- Mary W. Blanchard.
"Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong, self-reliant women were virtually, if not completely, absent from the visual arts and literature." "Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the United States brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in much the same way that they did for blacks. As women began attending college in greater numbers, entering professions previously dominated by men, and demanding greater personal freedom, these "new women" were featured more frequently in the visual arts and in a manner that made it clear that they had ambitions outside the domestic sphere." "Featuring more than seventy color and black-and-white images, Off the Pedestal is a window into the ways that identities and attitudes are forged on the stage of visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
0813536960 (hbk.) : £47.50 0813536979 (pbk.) : £21.95
VL161498
GBA606226 bnb
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 --Exhibitions.
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 --Exhibitions.
Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 --Exhibitions.
Women in art--Exhibitions
Feminism in art--Exhibitions
Art, American--19th century--Exhibitions
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions
704.042097309034