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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... picture . Gertrude's " own picture , " however , has not been described to the reader . The only picture thus far described in the novel is the narrator's verbal portrait of Gertrude , which therefore becomes a sort of self - portrait ...
... picture . Gertrude's " own picture , " however , has not been described to the reader . The only picture thus far described in the novel is the narrator's verbal portrait of Gertrude , which therefore becomes a sort of self - portrait ...
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... pictures . " 17 Albert Ryder , a late nineteenth - century American artist who was greatly influenced by European art ... picture that I just wanted to sit and look at " ( The Awakening , 17 ) . This scene in particular mirrors the ...
... pictures . " 17 Albert Ryder , a late nineteenth - century American artist who was greatly influenced by European art ... picture that I just wanted to sit and look at " ( The Awakening , 17 ) . This scene in particular mirrors the ...
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... pictures to explain that “ one must look past the central figures " and " their typical attitudes and symbolical dress " in order to “ catch a glimpse of the life amid which the painting originated , " the " real picture , the picture ...
... pictures to explain that “ one must look past the central figures " and " their typical attitudes and symbolical dress " in order to “ catch a glimpse of the life amid which the painting originated , " the " real picture , the picture ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
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