Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
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When nineteenth-century Americans looked at a statue of a nude woman in chains, or a shipwrecked mother and child, what did they see? When they talked or wrote about them, what did they say? In this engrossing book, Joy S. Kasson argues that there was a connection between the popularity of artworks such as these, which derive from a sentimental literary culture, and the rapidly changing social, economic, and political environment that was beginning...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300045964
ISBN13:9780300045963
Release Date:September 1990
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.8" x 10.3"
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