Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
- ISBN-10
- 0300064454
- ISBN-13
- 9780300064452
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Sarah Burns
Description
Describes how late Victorian culture encouraged the evolution of art as a career, discussing such "inventions" as art therapy and bohemianism, and exploring artists' complicated and confused gender roles
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