Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1996. First. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine, forest green & color illus. dust jacket, [vii] 380 pp, 129 bw images. G (Few marks from previous gallery owner; dj has edge wear esp. at top, corners are bumped; page margins are beginning to tan; still great text and illus.). Item #142843
ISBN: 0300064454
The story of artists in American society during the critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. It focuses on such painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder.
OCLC: 34474299
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