Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America /

"Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase...

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Main Author: Burns, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1999.
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500 |a Originally published: 1997. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 2 |a Introduction : Templates for modernity -- Finding the "real" American artist -- The artist in the age of surfaces : the culture of display and the taint of trade -- Fighting infection : aestheticism, degeneration, and the regulation of artistic masculinity -- Painting as rest cure -- Outselling the feminine -- Being big : Winslow Homer and the American business spirit -- Performing the self -- 8. Performing Bohemia -- Dabble, daub, and dauber : cartoons and artistic identity -- Populist versus plutocratic aesthetics. 
520 |a "Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, she investigates how artists reacted to the growing power of the media, to an expanding consumer society, to the need for a specifically American artist type, and to the problem of gender. With the vigorous growth of the magazine industry, says Burns, information about art and artists was diffused to a larger audience than ever before. Burns examines how stories and features in magazines, newspapers, and books forged reputations, established canons, and made the artist an important figure in American culture. She demonstrates how artists learned to "package" themselves in the early advertising age to create a desire not only for their products but also for the trappings of their artistic life. Next Burns examines how European models of the overrefined aesthete were reworked into more wholesome American versions, while painting took on an increasingly therapeutic role. She investigates gender dilemmas of the period, revealing how women artists were marginalized as professionals, and how the close fit between contemporary business values and the image of Winslow Homer explains why he was so often celebrated as the ultra-masculine, all-American painter. Burns also analyzes a variety of other artist images, ranging from theatrical Bohemians to clean-cut, civic-minded young professionals and down-to-earth commercial draftsmen. Illustrated with portraits, photographs, and cartoons of artists as well as a rich selection of paintings, this book demonstrates how patterns of artistic identity emerging in the late nineteenth century set the stage for those that have dominated the history of twentieth-century art and image making in America"--Publisher's description. 
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