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Therapeutic Beauty.
- Source :
- American Art; Fall2004, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p32-51, 20p, 5 Color Photographs, 16 Black and White Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This article focuses on the fact that female purity constituted a dominant theme for artists in the late nineteenth century. Indeed, late-nineteenth-century America, often referred to as the Gilded Age for its display of corporate wealth and cultural patronage, was also characterized by massive immigration, working-class violence, overcrowded housing for the poor, garbage-filled streets, industrial pollution, and the spread of epidemic disease. All of which played a role in remaking the nation as a specifically modern entity. For the most part, scholars have assumed that this process of modernization unfolded independently of artists' depictions of idealized women.
- Subjects :
- WOMEN in art
FEMININE beauty (Aesthetics)
ARTISTS
PATRONAGE
NINETEENTH century
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10739300
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Art
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15170692
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/427531