Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America

Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America / Sarah Burns.

Author/creator	Burns, Sarah
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.
Description	viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject(s)	Art, American. Artists--Psychology. Art and society--United States --History --19th century. Art and society--United States --History --20th century.

Contents	pt. 1. The traffic in images. Finding the "real" American artist ; The artist in the age of surfaces : the culture of display and the taint of trade -- pt. 2. Sickness and health. Fighting infection : aestheticism, degeneration, and the regulation of artistic masculinity ; Painting as rest cure -- pt. 3. Gender on the market. Outselling the feminine ; Being big : Winslow Homer and the American business spirit.
Local note	Little-305912--305131011345R
Local note	Little-305912--305131011345R
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-371) and index.
LCCN	96005929
ISBN	0300064454 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N6510 .B87 1996	✔ Available	Place Hold