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 27
... painting and literature as sister arts was employed in the Ren- aissance to raise painting from its status as a craft to the level of an original art form , by the eighteenth century , due to the rise of the middle- class audience , the ...
... painting and literature as sister arts was employed in the Ren- aissance to raise painting from its status as a craft to the level of an original art form , by the eighteenth century , due to the rise of the middle- class audience , the ...
Page 148
... painting of Mrs. Lloyd rests on the fact that it is an actual Reynolds : that both the identity of the painter and his reputation are firmly established . The painter's history is as important as the history of the painting . But the ...
... painting of Mrs. Lloyd rests on the fact that it is an actual Reynolds : that both the identity of the painter and his reputation are firmly established . The painter's history is as important as the history of the painting . But the ...
Page 154
... painting was the formation of a large public audience for viewing works of art , although it was film that fully facilitated mass critical reception . " In the cycle paintings of the nineteenth century and the panoramas that followed ...
... painting was the formation of a large public audience for viewing works of art , although it was film that fully facilitated mass critical reception . " In the cycle paintings of the nineteenth century and the panoramas that followed ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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