Title At home in the studio : the professionalization of women artists in America / Laura R. Prieto.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	704.042 P949A	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index.
Contents	Peculiarly Fitted to Art -- Domesticating Professional Art -- Figures and Fig Leaves -- Sculpting Butter: Gender Separatism and the Professional Ideal -- Portrait of the Artist as a New Woman -- Making the Modern Woman Artist.
Summary	This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Laura Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s.
Subject	Women artists -- United States -- History.
	Women in the professions -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Künstlerin -- Geschichte 1790-1940.
	Women artists. (OCoLC)fst01177159
	Women in the professions. (OCoLC)fst01178044
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Beruf. (DE-588)4005857-8
	Frau. (DE-588)4018202-2
	Künstlerin. (DE-588)4033430-2
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	Künstlerin.
	Frau.
	Beruf.
	United States.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0674004868 (alk. paper)
	9780674004863 (alk. paper)

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