Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
ISBN-10
0812240715
ISBN-13
9780812240719
Category
Art
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2008-05-07
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
April F. Masten

Description

Between 1850 and 1880, thousands of women moved to New York City to study art and pursue careers as painters, designers, illustrators, and engravers. This book reconnects their accomplishments to the city's conspicuously democratic art institutions, its burgeoning illustrated press, and the prevailing aesthetic ideal known as the Unity of Art.

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