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 108
... Percy's art . Although " the lesson was a full length drawing of this Othello , " when Percy tries to paint her Othello in color she ventures only to paint the " fine head . " She is never able to capture the same passion and enthusiasm ...
... Percy's art . Although " the lesson was a full length drawing of this Othello , " when Percy tries to paint her Othello in color she ventures only to paint the " fine head . " She is never able to capture the same passion and enthusiasm ...
Page 109
... Percy does not attempt to paint whatever might be in between the head and the heels . Percy's desire to control her own passions - her desire for color - in order to perfect her art is in keeping with Bronson Alcott's philosophy of ...
... Percy does not attempt to paint whatever might be in between the head and the heels . Percy's desire to control her own passions - her desire for color - in order to perfect her art is in keeping with Bronson Alcott's philosophy of ...
Page 110
... Percy's marriage and the birth of her child , Alcott di- rectly addresses the contention that creativity and motherhood are in- compatible . Percy's husband , August Müller ( who has proven himself well read and knowledgeable about art ...
... Percy's marriage and the birth of her child , Alcott di- rectly addresses the contention that creativity and motherhood are in- compatible . Percy's husband , August Müller ( who has proven himself well read and knowledgeable about art ...
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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