A01=Kathleen D. McCarthy
Author_Kathleen D. McCarthy
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226555843
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 1993
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
