Inventing the Modern Artist

Inventing the Modern Artist
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0300078595
ISBN-13 : 9780300078596
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Book Synopsis Inventing the Modern Artist by : Sarah Burns

Download or read book Inventing the Modern Artist written by Sarah Burns and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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