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Book SynopsisThis engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s.
Trade ReviewPrieto reconstructs a substantial chronology for women artists in the US...Two tendencies that wax and wane over a century are traced: the drive to be an artist and the desire to be a woman, both providing a basis for professionalization...[Prieto] demonstrates an ability to read works of art, interweaving their visual narratives into the context of women's artistic development. Highly recommended. -- E. K. Menon * Choice *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Peculiarly Fitted to Art 2. Domesticating Professional Art 3. Figures and Fig Leaves 4. Sculpting Butter: Gender Separatism and the Professional Ideal 5. Portrait of the Artist as a New Woman 6. Making the Modern Woman Artist Notes Bibliography Index
