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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dabakis, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sculpture, Neoclassical--Italy--Rome.
• Expatriate sculptors--Italy--Rome--History--19th century.
• Women sculptors--United States--History--19th century.
• Sculpture, American--Italy--Rome--19th century.
• Feminism and art.
• Rome (Italy)--Politics and government--19th century.
• Rome (Italy)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-06467-6

OCLC:

917561745