Erika Schneider

Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800-1865

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers, active between 1800 and 1865, depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to adequately support them financially and intellectually.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781611494129
• ISBN-10: 1611494125
• Artikelnr.: 42028580

Autorenporträt

Erika Schneider is associate professor of art history at Framingham State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapters
Introduction: The Mythology of Privation
Political Beginnings: "You Have Come A Great Way To Starve"
Man Enough: "Beggars Are Not To Be Choosers"
Compromise: "Paint For The Many, Not For The Few"
Respite Abroad: "Though They Feed My Body . . . They Starve My Soul"
Reading between the Lines: "American Patrons, Pshaw! American Critics,
Bah!"
Conclusion
Bibliography