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 124
... depiction of Adèle , the pregnant " sensuous Madonna . " As the narrator explains , " The picture completed bore no ... depiction of Adèle , why does she fail to do so ? The problem of depicting Adèle as a sensuous Madonna lies in the ...
... depiction of Adèle , the pregnant " sensuous Madonna . " As the narrator explains , " The picture completed bore no ... depiction of Adèle , why does she fail to do so ? The problem of depicting Adèle as a sensuous Madonna lies in the ...
Page 187
... depiction of overcrowding and poverty and looked " with more general sympathy on the working - class women and unemployed men " who would populate the streets in increasing numbers during the Depression . This division within the ...
... depiction of overcrowding and poverty and looked " with more general sympathy on the working - class women and unemployed men " who would populate the streets in increasing numbers during the Depression . This division within the ...
Page 191
... depicts a group of black men sitting on the street corner who all look directly and defiantly into the eye of the spectator . Even Soyer , who presents a more individualized and sympathetic depiction of the unem- ployed and who has been ...
... depicts a group of black men sitting on the street corner who all look directly and defiantly into the eye of the spectator . Even Soyer , who presents a more individualized and sympathetic depiction of the unem- ployed and who has been ...
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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