A sisterhood of sculptors : American artists in nineteenth-century Rome / Melissa Dabakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dabakis, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expatriate sculptors--Italy--Rome--History--19th century.

Expatriate sculptors.

Feminism and art.

Women sculptors--United States--History--19th century.

Women sculptors.

Sculpture, Neoclassical--Italy--Rome.

Sculpture, Neoclassical.

Sculpture, American--Italy--Rome--19th century.

Sculpture, American.

Rome (Italy)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Rome (Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Politics and government--19th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780271062198 ;