At home in the studio : the professionalization of women artists in America
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
Print Book, English, 2001
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001
History
xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780674004863, 0674004868
47243908
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Peculiarly Fitted to Art 2. Domesticating Professional Art 3. Figures and Fig Leaves 4. Sculpting Butter: Gender Separatism and the Professional Ideal 5. Portrait of the Artist as a New Woman 6. Making the Modern Woman Artist Notes Bibliography Index