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A study of Mary Cassatt's lost mural Modern Woman. It connects the symbolism of the painting to Cassatt's life as a woman artist and a member of the Parisian avant-garde, and to the history of woman's emancipation.

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"A compellingly feminist, solidly art-historical, and satisfyingly contextual reading of Mary Cassatt's monumental mural . . . . In unraveling the mural's sources, linking it to feminist activism and other reformist currents, and viewing it in relation to the artist's own life story and struggle, Webster restores the work to the important place it deserves as the fiercely independent artist's most public, political, and (in its coded fashion) most personal expression."--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"A lively art history detective story that makes a missing painting come alive."--Bloomsbury Review
"A long lost mural by Cassatt is brought to light in this informative, small-format book. . . . Recommended."--Choice

Eves DaughterModern Woman A MURAL BY MARY

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 8/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252075964, 978-0252075964
      ISBN10: 025207596X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of Mary Cassatt's lost mural Modern Woman. It connects the symbolism of the painting to Cassatt's life as a woman artist and a member of the Parisian avant-garde, and to the history of woman's emancipation.

      Trade Review
      "A compellingly feminist, solidly art-historical, and satisfyingly contextual reading of Mary Cassatt's monumental mural . . . . In unraveling the mural's sources, linking it to feminist activism and other reformist currents, and viewing it in relation to the artist's own life story and struggle, Webster restores the work to the important place it deserves as the fiercely independent artist's most public, political, and (in its coded fashion) most personal expression."--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
      "A lively art history detective story that makes a missing painting come alive."--Bloomsbury Review
      "A long lost mural by Cassatt is brought to light in this informative, small-format book. . . . Recommended."--Choice

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