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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... Avis's paintings from his own point of view . Again , in her de- piction of Avis , Phelps reverses the problem that the original woman artist faces . The danger is not that the unrefined will interpret her secret desires but that the ...
... Avis's paintings from his own point of view . Again , in her de- piction of Avis , Phelps reverses the problem that the original woman artist faces . The danger is not that the unrefined will interpret her secret desires but that the ...
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Portraits of the Woman Artist Deborah Barker. Avis , marriage does not ensure the fulfillment of desire or ambition for Avis or Philip . Instead , Avis's maternal response to Philip as a weak child who needs her help plays out the ...
Portraits of the Woman Artist Deborah Barker. Avis , marriage does not ensure the fulfillment of desire or ambition for Avis or Philip . Instead , Avis's maternal response to Philip as a weak child who needs her help plays out the ...
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... Avis of Mrs. Ostrander's biological creation , her child . Philip is the object of desire whose image is exchanged between women , and it is the power of Avis's gaze and her creative imagination that produce Philip as a work of art . Avis's ...
... Avis of Mrs. Ostrander's biological creation , her child . Philip is the object of desire whose image is exchanged between women , and it is the power of Avis's gaze and her creative imagination that produce Philip as a work of art . Avis's ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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