Restless enterprise the art and life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
Prologue : The old church -- Maeve's daughters : from Ireland to America, 1819- -- Art, domesticity, and enterprise, 1850- -- Civil war and architectural destruction -- Success in the New York art world, 1865- -- In the footsteps of Dürer, 1870- -- Taming the west : summer Etchings in Colorado...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue : The old church -- Maeve's daughters : from Ireland to America, 1819- -- Art, domesticity, and enterprise, 1850- -- Civil war and architectural destruction -- Success in the New York art world, 1865- -- In the footsteps of Dürer, 1870- -- Taming the west : summer Etchings in Colorado (1873) -- Old New York (1875) : witnessing urban transformation -- Centennial women, 1876- -- Transatlantique: From New York to Paris, from Cragsmoor to Morocco, 1878- -- Epilogue : Kathleen and Eleanor Greatorex carrying on alone. "Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Unusually for a woman, she specialized in landscape and streetscapes, traveling from the Hudson River to the Colorado Rockies and across Europe and North Africa. Her magnum opus-graphics of Old New York- awakened the public to the destruction of the city's architectural heritage during the post-Civil War era. Exploring Greatorex's fierce ambition and creative path, Katherine Manthorne reveals how one woman forged an independent career in a male-dominated world to help shape American gender politics, visual culture, and urban consciousness"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 337 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780520355507 |