Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America / Sarah Burns.

Author/creator Burns, Sarah
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.
Descriptionviii, 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 noteLittle-305912--305131011345R
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-371) and index.
LCCN 96005929
ISBN0300064454 (alk. paper)