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Inventing the Modern Artist : Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America Author:Sarah Burns In this fascinating book about American artists of the late nineteenth century, Sarah Burns focuses on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecelia Beaux, and Winslow Homer to show how artists and their culture shaped one another. During this period, new patterns of artistic identity emerged as artists dealt ... more »with many issues, including the growing power of the media, an expanding consumer society, the need for a specifically American artist type, and gender dilemmas.« less