Off the Pedestal; New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent
by Connor, Holly Pyne
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- ISBN 10
- 0813536979
- ISBN 13
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Newark: The Newark Museum 978-0-813-536-972 [978-0-813-536-972] 2006. (4to paperback) 158pp. Near fine. Black and white and color illustrations, photographs, notes, credits, index. "Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong, self-reliant women were virtually, if not completely, absent from the visual arts and literature. Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War". Book about Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Charles Dana Gibson, Winslow Homer, William Dean Howells, Henry James, John Singer Sargent, Self-Reliance & Edith Wharton. Time Period 19th Century. (Art, Art, Feminism, Painting, Portraits, Women, Women's Studies).
Synopsis
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, N.J., Mar. 18-June 18, 2006; at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, July-October 2006; and at the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4, 2006-Feb. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
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- Title
- Off the Pedestal; New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent
- Author
- Connor, Holly Pyne
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
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- ISBN 10
- 0813536979
- ISBN 13
- 9780813536972
- Publisher
- The Newark Museum 978-0-813-536-972
- Place of Publication
- Newark
- This edition first published
- March 25, 2006
- Keywords
- Art, Art, Feminism, Painting, Portraits, Women, Women's Studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART And Architecture;
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