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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... Fourteenth Street , she typifies one of the favorite subjects of Fourteenth Street artists : the female shopper . Ellen Wiley Todd explains in her study of the New Woman and the Fourteenth Street School that , although " shoppers and ...
... Fourteenth Street , she typifies one of the favorite subjects of Fourteenth Street artists : the female shopper . Ellen Wiley Todd explains in her study of the New Woman and the Fourteenth Street School that , although " shoppers and ...
Page 190
... Fourteenth Street School most closely associated with the rise of Social Realism . Angela's depic- tion of her train travels serves as an excellent description of the stark re- alism of March's early etchings , Subway - Three Girls ...
... Fourteenth Street School most closely associated with the rise of Social Realism . Angela's depic- tion of her train travels serves as an excellent description of the stark re- alism of March's early etchings , Subway - Three Girls ...
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... Fourteenth Street School , describes the unemployed men and women in his paintings , as in In the City Park ( 1934 ) , as “ silent , non- demanding " figures . 71 While Fauset does not condemn Angela for her choice of subject matter ...
... Fourteenth Street School , describes the unemployed men and women in his paintings , as in In the City Park ( 1934 ) , as “ silent , non- demanding " figures . 71 While Fauset does not condemn Angela for her choice of subject matter ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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