Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman ArtistThis study demonstrates how popular women writers used the female visual artist as their alter ego to renegotiate the boundaries between high and low culture. The figure of the professional woman painter allowed women writers to critique the dominant aesthetic and scientific theories that categorized women and an ethnically configured lower class as artistically and intellectually inferior to an elite, male-defined figure of the Romantic artist-as-genius. Illustrated. |
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... black women's ) role as cultural mediators . Ultimately , Angela authenticates herself as an African - American woman artist and Harlem as an important subject of artistic consideration . However , the dominance of the conservative ...
... black women's ) role as cultural mediators . Ultimately , Angela authenticates herself as an African - American woman artist and Harlem as an important subject of artistic consideration . However , the dominance of the conservative ...
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... African - American female artist . Fauset makes room for the black , middle - class , female artist in Plum Bun by employing the visual arts and the female sentimental tradition to renegotiate the conflict be- tween nineteenth - century ...
... African - American female artist . Fauset makes room for the black , middle - class , female artist in Plum Bun by employing the visual arts and the female sentimental tradition to renegotiate the conflict be- tween nineteenth - century ...
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... African - American artist from a solid , middle - class background who goes to New York to find " freedom " and the " finer " things in life by passing as white , Angela embodies the conflicts and contradictions among these different ...
... African - American artist from a solid , middle - class background who goes to New York to find " freedom " and the " finer " things in life by passing as white , Angela embodies the conflicts and contradictions among these different ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist Deborah Barker No preview available - 2000 |
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