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A sisterhood of sculptors : American artists in nineteenth-century Rome
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"Explores mid-nineteenth-century American women sculptors who developed successful professional careers in Rome. Draws from feminist theory, cultural geography, and expatriate and postcolonial stud...
"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.
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- Creator
- Melissa Dabakis
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- Language
- English
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- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
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- xiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0271064676, 9780271062198, 0271062193, 9780271064673, 9780271062204, 0271062207
- OCLC
- ocn917561745, ocn870210817
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
- 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
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.
- Rome (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Rome (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
- Feminism and art.