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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... copyist , it is necessary to delineate how and why Hawthorne's Hilda in The Marble Faun and James's representation of Noémie Nioche in The American are paradigmatic of the ideological function of the woman artist as painter / copyist in ...
... copyist , it is necessary to delineate how and why Hawthorne's Hilda in The Marble Faun and James's representation of Noémie Nioche in The American are paradigmatic of the ideological function of the woman artist as painter / copyist in ...
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... copyist is to elevate the masses by making the great masters accessible to them . The irony , of course , is that in order to create the proper audience for American art ( that is , to Ameri- canize lower - class European immigrants ) ...
... copyist is to elevate the masses by making the great masters accessible to them . The irony , of course , is that in order to create the proper audience for American art ( that is , to Ameri- canize lower - class European immigrants ) ...
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... copyist as cultural mediator . As I suggested in chapter 1 , Hawthorne's depiction of Hilda , the copyist , represents the limited function of the woman artist as a cultural mediator who elevates the masses by bringing the works of the ...
... copyist as cultural mediator . As I suggested in chapter 1 , Hawthorne's depiction of Hilda , the copyist , represents the limited function of the woman artist as a cultural mediator who elevates the masses by bringing the works of the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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