A sisterhood of sculptors : American artists in nineteenth-century Rome / Melissa Dabakis.

Author/creator Dabakis, Melissa author.
Format Book
PublicationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Subjects
Expatriate sculptors--Italy. --Rome. --History. --19th century.
Women sculptors--United States. --History. --19th century.
Sculpture, Neoclassical--Italy. --Rome.
Sculpture, American--Italy. --Rome. --19th century.
Feminism and art.
Rome (Italy)--Intellectual life. --19th century.
Rome (Italy)--Politics and government. --19th century.

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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2013046864
ISBN9780271062198 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271062193 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks NB210 .D33 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold