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Yale University Press

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

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Title: Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
Author: Sarah Burns
ISBN: 9780300064452
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good
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Publisher Description:
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.