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- catalog abstract "Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. In painting and sculpture, they took on a bewildering variety of identities, from Venus, Ariadne, and Diana to Law, Justice, the Arts, and Commerce. Bailey Van Hook argues here that the artists' concept of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. She finds that certain characteristics such as "ideal," beautiful," "decorative," and "pure" both describe this art and define the perceived role of women in American society at the time. Van Hook first places the American artists in an international context by discussing the works of their French teachers, including Jean-Leon Gerome and Alexandre Cabanel. She goes on to explore why they soon had to distance themselves from that context, primarily because their art was perceived as either openly sensual or too obliquely foreign by American audiences. Van Hook delineates the modes of representation the American painters chose, which ranged from the more traditional allegorical or mythological subjects to a decorative figure painting indebted to Whistler. Changing American culture ultimately rejected these idealized female images as too genteel and, eventually, too academic and European.".
- catalog alternative "Women and art in American society, 1876-1914".
- catalog contributor b10184134.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Ideal women as the international language of art -- The return home : what to paint? -- Ideal women in late nineteenth century American art : modes of representation -- Modes of representation continued : mural painting -- Ideal and real -- Beautiful and decorative -- Pure and American.".
- catalog description "Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. In painting and sculpture, they took on a bewildering variety of identities, from Venus, Ariadne, and Diana to Law, Justice, the Arts, and Commerce. Bailey Van Hook argues here that the artists' concept of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. She finds that certain characteristics such as "ideal," beautiful," "decorative," and "pure" both describe this art and define the perceived role of women in American society at the time.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index.".
- catalog description "Van Hook first places the American artists in an international context by discussing the works of their French teachers, including Jean-Leon Gerome and Alexandre Cabanel. She goes on to explore why they soon had to distance themselves from that context, primarily because their art was perceived as either openly sensual or too obliquely foreign by American audiences. Van Hook delineates the modes of representation the American painters chose, which ranged from the more traditional allegorical or mythological subjects to a decorative figure painting indebted to Whistler. Changing American culture ultimately rejected these idealized female images as too genteel and, eventually, too academic and European.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 287 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Angels of art.".
- catalog identifier "0271015578 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0271015586 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Angels of art.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Angels of art.".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "757/.4/097309034 20".
- catalog subject "Art and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Art and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century United States.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 20th century United States.".
- catalog subject "Expatriate painters Europe.".
- catalog subject "Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) United States.".
- catalog subject "N6510 .V35 1996".
- catalog subject "Women in art.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ideal women as the international language of art -- The return home : what to paint? -- Ideal women in late nineteenth century American art : modes of representation -- Modes of representation continued : mural painting -- Ideal and real -- Beautiful and decorative -- Pure and American.".
- catalog title "Angels of art : women and art in American society, 1876-1914 / Bailey Van Hook.".
- catalog title "Women and art in American society, 1876-1914".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".