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Author/Artist	Burns, Sarah.
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.

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Location	Call Number	Vol./Copy	Status Information
Brooklyn Stacks	N1236 Un3 B93		AVAILABLE
Frick Book Stacks	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

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