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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... vision over that of the artist . The scene in question shows Ruth , after the death of her first child , sit- ting and staring at “ a little half - worn shoe , with the impress of a tiny foot , upon which her tears were falling fast ...
... vision over that of the artist . The scene in question shows Ruth , after the death of her first child , sit- ting and staring at “ a little half - worn shoe , with the impress of a tiny foot , upon which her tears were falling fast ...
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... vision of foam and fury , and dizzy cliffs , and an ocean tumbling down out of the sky - a scene , in short , which Nature had too much good taste and calm simplicity to realize . My mind had struggled to adapt these false conceptions ...
... vision of foam and fury , and dizzy cliffs , and an ocean tumbling down out of the sky - a scene , in short , which Nature had too much good taste and calm simplicity to realize . My mind had struggled to adapt these false conceptions ...
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... vision has been so closely identified with the luminist painters that , as Gayle L. Smith states , " It appears to be almost impossible to write about the Luminist painters ' attitudes toward nature and the role of the artist without ...
... vision has been so closely identified with the luminist painters that , as Gayle L. Smith states , " It appears to be almost impossible to write about the Luminist painters ' attitudes toward nature and the role of the artist without ...
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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