Art work : women artists and democracy in mid-nineteenth-century New York /
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 pre...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008
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| Series: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291742 0812291743 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
