Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America

by Sarah Burns

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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 painters such as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase and Cecilia Beaux.
  • ISBN10 0300064454
  • ISBN13 9780300064452
  • Publish Date 27 November 1996
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 January 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 386
  • Language English