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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... portrait is behind a curtain that he controls ) . The male patron , therefore , reveals his power and his possession when he displays the portrait . At first glance , it would seem that Phelps completely reverses this type of ...
... portrait is behind a curtain that he controls ) . The male patron , therefore , reveals his power and his possession when he displays the portrait . At first glance , it would seem that Phelps completely reverses this type of ...
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... portrait as an artistic object distinct from herself . As a portrait , she accompanies her own painting . Therefore , not only does her use of " I " signify both herself and her portrait , her reference to " her painting " indicates ...
... portrait as an artistic object distinct from herself . As a portrait , she accompanies her own painting . Therefore , not only does her use of " I " signify both herself and her portrait , her reference to " her painting " indicates ...
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... portrait of her aunt through biological as well as cultural inheritance . And in this case it is the woman in the portrait ( the aunt ) who is the unmarried woman while , as stated , Halo is both wife and mother - to - be . The portrait ...
... portrait of her aunt through biological as well as cultural inheritance . And in this case it is the woman in the portrait ( the aunt ) who is the unmarried woman while , as stated , Halo is both wife and mother - to - be . The portrait ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
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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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