Research Catalog

Title

Off the pedestal : new women in the art of Homer, Chase and Sargent / edited by Holly Pyne Connor.

Publication

Piscataway, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Connor, Holly Pyne, 1952-
• Newark Museum.
• McNay Art Museum
• Frick Art & Historical Center

Description

xv, 158 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong, self-reliant women were virtually, if not completely, absent from the visual arts and literature." "Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the United States brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in much the same way that they did for blacks. As women began attending college in greater numbers, entering professions previously dominated by men, and demanding greater personal freedom, these "new women" were featured more frequently in the visual arts and in a manner that made it clear that they had ambitions outside the domestic sphere." "Featuring more than seventy color and black-and-white images, Off the Pedestal is a window into the ways that identities and attitudes are forged on the stage of visual culture."--Jacket.

Subject

• Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
• Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
• Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
• 1800-1999
• Geschichte 1865-1900
• Women in art
• Feminism in art
• Art, American > 19th century
• Art, American > 20th century
• Women in art > Exhibitions
• Feminism and art > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Not at home: the nineteenth-century new woman -- Homer's ambiguously new women -- The manly new woman -- Photography credits -- Notes on the contributors -- List of lenders -- Trustees of the Newark Museum -- Index.

ISBN

• 0813536960 (hbk.)
• 0813536979 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 62714641
• SCSB-10225737

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library