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A sisterhood of sculptors American artists in nineteenth-century Rome
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Title
A sisterhood of sculptors [electronic resource] : American artists in nineteenth-century Rome / Melissa Dabakis.
ISBN
9780271064673
0271064676
9780271062198 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271062193
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"Explores mid-nineteenth-century American women sculptors who developed successful professional careers in Rome. Draws from feminist theory, cultural geography, and expatriate and postcolonial studies to investigate the gendered nature of creativity and expatriation"--Provided by publisher.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Boston-Rome nexus
Neoclassicism in cosmopolitan Rome
"A woman artist is an object of peculiar odium"
Rome in the colonial imagination
Reimagining Italy
Antislavery sermons in stone
Women sculptors, suffrage, and the public stage.
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