LEADER 04528nam 2200733 450 001 9910812706103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9174-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291742 035 $a(CKB)3710000000274995 035 $a(OCoLC)896849989 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10962110 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001378499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11768805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11339985 035 $a(PQKB)10437049 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41910 035 $a(DE-B1597)451296 035 $a(OCoLC)979631291 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291742 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442443 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10962110 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682626 035 $a(OCoLC)932313318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442443 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000274995 100 $a20080307h20082008 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArt work $ewomen artists and democracy in mid-nineteenth-century New York /$fApril F. Masten 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 225 1 $aThe arts and intellectual life in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51344-9 311 $a0-8122-4071-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [259]-305) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : "American Louvre" -- Democratic proclivities -- "The unity of art" -- "Art fever" -- "Harrahed for the Union" -- "Laborers in the field of the beautiful" -- "An easier and surer path" -- "A combination of adverse circumstances". 330 $a"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thing to daughters of that period."-The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock FooteMary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist. She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial panics and civil war, thousands of young women moved to New York City between 1850 and 1880 to pursue careers as professional artists. Many of them trained with masters at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women, where they were imbued with the Unity of Art ideal, an aesthetic ideology that made no distinction between fine and applied arts or male and female abilities. These women became painters, designers, illustrators, engravers, colorists, and art teachers. They were encouraged by some of the era's best-known figures, among them Tribune editor Horace Greeley and mechanic/philanthropist Peter Cooper, who blamed the poverty and dependence of both women and workers on the separation of mental and manual labor in industrial society. The most acclaimed artists among them owed their success to New York's conspicuously egalitarian art institutions and the rise of the illustrated press. Yet within a generation their names, accomplishments, and the aesthetic ideal that guided them virtually disappeared from the history of American art.Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York recaptures the unfamiliar cultural landscape in which spirited young women, daring social reformers, and radical artisans succeeded in reuniting art and industry. In this interdisciplinary study, April F. Masten situates the aspirations and experience of these forgotten women artists, and the value of art work itself, at the heart of the capitalist transformation of American society. 410 0$aArts and intellectual life in modern America. 606 $aWomen artists$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen artists$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xEconomic conditions 606 $aArt and society$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aWomen artists$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen artists$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aArt and society$xHistory 676 $a704/.04209747109034 700 $aMasten$b April F.$01679876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812706103321 996 $aArt work$94048454 997 $aUNINA