{"product_id":"art-work-women-artists-and-democracy-in-mid-nineteenth-century-new-york-hardback-9780812240719","title":"Art Work; Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York (Hardback) 9780812240719","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eApril F. Masten (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812240719\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 June 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 55 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This fascinating and deeply researched book speaks to important questions in the fields of women's labor history, cultural history, the social history of art, and, in its largest frame, to questions about the human meaning of work in the industrial age. Masten links together a trans-Atlantic set of social theories about workers with art theories from men like John Ruskin to assert that artists can maintain their art in an era of mechanization.\" (Patricia Cline Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in 19th Century New York\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thing to daughters of that period.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist. She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial panics and civil war, thousands of young women moved to New York City between 1850 and 1880 to pursue careers as professional artists. Many of them trained with masters at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women, where they were imbued with the Unity of Art ideal, an aesthetic ideology that made no distinction between fine and applied arts or male and female abilities. These women became painters, designers, illustrators, engravers, colorists, and art teachers. They were encouraged by some of the era's best-known figures, among them \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e editor Horace Greeley and mechanic\/philanthropist Peter Cooper, who blamed the poverty and dependence of both women and workers on the separation of mental and manual labor in industrial society. The most acclaimed artists among them owed their success to New York's conspicuously egalitarian art institutions and the rise of the illustrated press. Yet within a generation their names, accomplishments, and the aesthetic ideal that guided them virtually disappeared from the history of American art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArt Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York\u003c\/i\u003e recaptures the unfamiliar cultural landscape in which spirited young women, daring social reformers, and radical artisans succeeded in reuniting art and industry. In this interdisciplinary study, April F. Masten situates the aspirations and experience of these forgotten women artists, and the value of art work itself, at the heart of the capitalist transformation of American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \"American Louvre\"\u003cbr\u003e Democratic Proclivities\u003cbr\u003e \"The Unity of Art\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Art Fever\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Harrahed for the Union\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Laborers in the Field of the Beautiful\"\u003cbr\u003e \"An Easier and Surer Path\"\u003cbr\u003e \"A Combination of Adverse Circumstances\"\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710103832,"sku":"9780812240719","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/art-work-women-artists-and-democracy-in-mid-nineteenth-century-new-york-hardback-9780812240719","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}