At home in the studio : the professionalization of women artists in America /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prieto, Laura R., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Women artists > United States > History.
Women in the professions > United States > History.
Femmes artistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes dans les professions libérales > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Women artists
Women in the professions
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Peculiarly Fitted to Art
  • Chapter 2. Domesticating Professional Art
  • Chapter 3. Figures and Fig Leaves
  • Chapter 4. Sculpting Butter: Gender Separatism and the Professional Ideal
  • Chapter 5. Portrait of the Artist as a New Woman
  • Chapter 6. Making the Modern Woman Artist
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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