19th century american culture
20th century american culture
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american art
american art history
american culture
antebellum period
art
art collections
art history
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collecting
elite women
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feminist analysis
gender in america
gender studies
gilded age
illustrated text
independence
insightful
modern museums
museum
self awareness
wealth
women and gender studies
women art collectors
womens suffrage
Product details
- ISBN 9780520237292
- Weight: 1089g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage.
Dianne Sachko Macleod is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity.
