Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America / Sarah Burns.
| Author/creator | Burns, Sarah |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996. |
| Description | viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | pt. 1. The traffic in images. Finding the "real" American artist ; The artist in the age of surfaces : the culture of display and the taint of trade -- pt. 2. Sickness and health. Fighting infection : aestheticism, degeneration, and the regulation of artistic masculinity ; Painting as rest cure -- pt. 3. Gender on the market. Outselling the feminine ; Being big : Winslow Homer and the American business spirit. |
| Local note | Little-305912--305131011345R |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-371) and index. |
| LCCN | 96005929 |
| ISBN | 0300064454 (alk. paper) |