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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... explains that " my time is too valuable to me to be thrown away on bores and idlers . ... And as to general society , it is so seldom one finds a congenial circle that , having resources of my own , I feel disinclined to encounter the ...
... explains that " my time is too valuable to me to be thrown away on bores and idlers . ... And as to general society , it is so seldom one finds a congenial circle that , having resources of my own , I feel disinclined to encounter the ...
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... explains that every true genius who dies of neglect " still leaves be- hind some monument of his genius . . . he ' still speaks ' to many suc- ceeding generations — as for instance Chatterton , Keats , Savage , our own Brockden Brown ...
... explains that every true genius who dies of neglect " still leaves be- hind some monument of his genius . . . he ' still speaks ' to many suc- ceeding generations — as for instance Chatterton , Keats , Savage , our own Brockden Brown ...
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... explains that it " was found impossible that women should paint from the living nude models of both sexes , side by side with the Frenchmen " ( Nieriker , Studying Art Abroad , 48 ) . And , in referring to her preference for Krug's ...
... explains that it " was found impossible that women should paint from the living nude models of both sexes , side by side with the Frenchmen " ( Nieriker , Studying Art Abroad , 48 ) . And , in referring to her preference for Krug's ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
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