Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America /
Sarah Burns.
- viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-371) and index.
pt. 1. The traffic in images. Finding the "real" American artist ; The artist in the age of surfaces : the culture of display and the taint of trade -- pt. 2. Sickness and health. Fighting infection : aestheticism, degeneration, and the regulation of artistic masculinity ; Painting as rest cure -- pt. 3. Gender on the market. Outselling the feminine ; Being big : Winslow Homer and the American business spirit.
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.
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