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Painting Professionals : Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 by Kirsten Swinth (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press. Number of Pages: 328. Weight: 1.05 lbs. Publication Date: 2001-10-15. ISBN13: 9780807849712.

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807849715
ISBN-13
9780807849712
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1920623

Product Key Features

Book Title
Painting Professionals : Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Women's Studies, American / General
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, History
Author
Kirsten Swinth
Book Series
Gender and American Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-027413
Reviews
Kirsten Swinth helps explain all those women we see in photographs of late Victorian art classes--where they came from, where they went, and why so many disappeared. A magnificent achievement! (Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University), Swinth gives the reader the big picture, weaving together diaries, letters, and contemporary criticism to create a fascinating story of women's considerable professional achievements in the American art world. (Erica E. Hirshler, John Moors Cabot Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
759.13/082
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late nineteenth century. According to census figures, the number of women among the ranks of professional artists rose from 10 percent to nearly 50 percent between 1870 and 1890. Examining the effects of this change, Kirsten Swinth explores how women's growing presence in the American art world transformed both its institutions and its ideology.Swinth traces the careers of women painters in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, opening and closing her book with discussion of the two most famous women artists of the period--Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps surprisingly, Swinth shows that in the 1870s and 1880s men and women easily crossed the boundaries separating conventionally masculine and feminine artistic territories to compete with each other as well as to join forces to professionalize art training, manage a fluid and unpredictable art market, and shape the language of art criticism. By the 1890s, however, women artists faced a backlash. Ultimately, Swinth argues, these gender contests spilled beyond the world of art to shape twentieth-century understandings of high culture and the formation of modernism in profound ways., Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late nineteenth century. According to census figures, the number of women among the ranks of professional artists rose from 10 percent to nearly 50 percent between 1870 and 1890. Examining the effects of this change, Kirsten Swinth explores how women's growing presence in the American art world transformed both its institutions and its ideology. Swinth traces the careers of women painters in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, opening and closing her book with discussion of the two most famous women artists of the period--Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps surprisingly, Swinth shows that in the 1870s and 1880s men and women easily crossed the boundaries separating conventionally masculine and feminine artistic territories to compete with each other as well as to join forces to professionalize art training, manage a fluid and unpredictable art market, and shape the language of art criticism. By the 1890s, however, women artists faced a backlash. Ultimately, Swinth argues, these gender contests spilled beyond the world of art to shape twentieth-century understandings of high culture and the formation of modernism in profound ways., Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late 19th century. Examining the effects of this change, Kirsten Swinth explores how women's growing presence in the American art world transformed both its institutions and its ideology.
LC Classification Number
2001027413 [ND]