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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Page 143
... Lily's position as artist and object is integral to her social station as an upper - class lady , and , as such , she is also representative of the commodi- fication of women of leisure who " allow their art to be absorbed into pa ...
... Lily's position as artist and object is integral to her social station as an upper - class lady , and , as such , she is also representative of the commodi- fication of women of leisure who " allow their art to be absorbed into pa ...
Page 148
... Lily's " crimes " are much more a matter of form and appearance than they are actual sins ( HM , 135 ) . For Mrs. Pe- niston , Lily's real crime is to have made herself " conspicuous , ” for “ it was horrible of a young girl to let ...
... Lily's " crimes " are much more a matter of form and appearance than they are actual sins ( HM , 135 ) . For Mrs. Pe- niston , Lily's real crime is to have made herself " conspicuous , ” for “ it was horrible of a young girl to let ...
Page 153
... Lily's tableau vivant of Mrs. Lloyd is , in fact , a living copy of a great master . As a refined , upper - class woman , Lily does mediate between elite and mass society ; her " genius , " however , is not that she recreates the masses ...
... Lily's tableau vivant of Mrs. Lloyd is , in fact , a living copy of a great master . As a refined , upper - class woman , Lily does mediate between elite and mass society ; her " genius , " however , is not that she recreates the masses ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
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