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Eve´s Daughter/Modern Woman: A MURAL BY MARY CASSATT
Sally Webster
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Description for Eve´s Daughter/Modern Woman: A MURAL BY MARY CASSATT
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 176 pages, 58 photographs. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt is not typically regarded as an artist of radical convictions. In Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman, Sally Webster reevaluates these dismissals with a historical, aesthetic, and symbolist analysis of Cassatt's unique venture into the male-dominated realm of large-scale mural painting, Modern Woman. Commissioned for the Woman's Building at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Modern Woman also stood as a personal and professional manifesto. This book undertakes a complete overview of Cassatt's mural, synthesizing a wide variety of interpretations ... Read more
Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt is not typically regarded as an artist of radical convictions. In Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman, Sally Webster reevaluates these dismissals with a historical, aesthetic, and symbolist analysis of Cassatt's unique venture into the male-dominated realm of large-scale mural painting, Modern Woman. Commissioned for the Woman's Building at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Modern Woman also stood as a personal and professional manifesto. This book undertakes a complete overview of Cassatt's mural, synthesizing a wide variety of interpretations ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075964
SKU
V9780252075964
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About Sally Webster
Sally Webster, professor of American art at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is the author of William Morris Hunt, and the coeditor of Critical Issues in Public Art.
Reviews for Eve´s Daughter/Modern Woman: A MURAL BY MARY CASSATT
A long lost mural by Cassatt is brought to light in this informative, small-format book. . . . Recommended.
Choice A lively art history detective story that makes a missing painting come alive.
Bloomsbury Review A compellingly feminist, solidly art-historical, and satisfyingly contextual reading of Mary Cassatt's monumental mural . . . . In unraveling the mural's sources, ... Read more
Choice A lively art history detective story that makes a missing painting come alive.
Bloomsbury Review A compellingly feminist, solidly art-historical, and satisfyingly contextual reading of Mary Cassatt's monumental mural . . . . In unraveling the mural's sources, ... Read more