Your session will expire automatically in
0
seconds.
Continue session
End session now
SearchType
Keyword
Title
Author
Subject
Date of Sale
ISBN/ISSN/Sale Code
Call Number
LC Call Number
WorldCat Number
Brooklyn Object Number
Barcode
Record Number
Search
Search Scope
Arcade Libraries (all)
Arcade: E-Resources
Brooklyn Museum (all)
Brooklyn: Wilbour Library
Brooklyn: Special Collections
Frick Art Reference Library (all)
Frick: Photoarchive
Museum of Modern Art (all)
MoMA: Manhattan
MoMA: Offsite
MoMA: Latin American Collection
Author/Artist
Burns, Sarah, 1982-
Title
Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America / Sarah Burns.
Publisher/Date
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1996.
Description
viii, 380 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
More research tools
Location
Call Number
Vol./Copy
Status Information
Brooklyn Stacks
N1236 Un3 B93
AVAILABLE
Frick Offsite - Request in Advance
103 B937
AVAILABLE
MoMA Offsite Stacks
N6510 .B87 1996
AVAILABLE
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Templates for Modernity
Pt. 1
The Traffic in Images
1
Finding the "Real" American Artist
19
2
The Artist in the Age of Surfaces: The Culture of Display and the Taint of Trade
46
Pt. 2
Sickness and Health
3
Fighting Infection: Aestheticism, Degeneration, and the Regulation of Artistic Masculinity
79
4
Painting as Rest Cure
120
Pt. 3
Gender on the Market
5
Outselling the Feminine
159
6
Being Big: Winslow Homer and the American Business Spirit
187
Pt. 4
The Artist in the Realm of Spectacle
7
Performing the Self
221
8
Performing Bohemia
247
Pt. 5
Oculus Populi
9
Dabble, Daub, and Dauber: Cartoons and Artistic Identity
277
10
Populist versus Plutocratic Aesthetics
300
Notes
329
Index
373
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-371) and index.
Note
Frick: Press release inserted.
LC subject
Art, American.
Artists -- Psychology.
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Local subject
Brooklyn Museum object 13.50 In the Studio (Chase, William Merritt)
Brooklyn Museum object 78.151.1 End of the Portage (Homer, Winslow)
Genre/Form
Press releases.
ISBN
0300064454 (alk. paper)
WorldCat no.
34474299
Permanent link to this page:
https://arcade.nyarc.org:443/record=b176801~S1
More research tools