At Home in the Studio : : The Professionalization of Women Artists in America / / Laura R. Prieto.

This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Laura Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Peculiarly Fitted to Art
  • 2 Domesticating Professional Art
  • 3 Figures and Fig Leaves
  • 4 Sculpting Butter: Gender Separatism and the Professional Ideal
  • 5 Portrait of the Artist as a New Woman
  • 6 Making the Modern Woman Artist
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index