Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America Book

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.Read More

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  • 0300078595
  • 9780300078596
  • S Burns
  • 5 May 1999
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 392
  • New edition
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