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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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.