Inventing the modern artist
Inventing the modern artist: art and culture in gilded age America Sarah Burns,
Publisher: New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press, 1996, 1999.
ISBN: 0300078595
LCC: N6510
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
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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