Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780271062204 Academic Inspection Copy

A Sisterhood of Sculptors

American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome
  • ISBN-13: 9780271062204
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Melissa Dabakis
  • Price: AUD $64.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/04/2015
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
Description
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview

Explores mid-nineteenth-century American women sculptors who developed successful professional careers in Rome. Draws from feminist theory, cultural geography, and expatriate and postcolonial studies to investigate the gendered nature of creativity and expatriation.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Feminine Professionalism in Boston and Rome

1 The Boston-Rome Nexus

2 Neoclassicism in Cosmopolitan Rome

3 “A Woman Artist Is an Object of Peculiar Odium”

Part II: Women Sculptors and the Politics of Rome

4 Rome in the Colonial Imagination

5 Reimagining Italy

Part III: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Suffrage Debates

6 Antislavery Sermons in Stone

7 Women Sculptors, Suffrage, and the Public Stage

Postscript

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index


“Offers a new contribution to the study of American artists working in international contexts, to the body of scholarship on American sculpture and its connections with political history, and to the discussion of gender in art history.”

—Emily C. Burns, CAA.Reviews

Google Preview content