Melissa Dabakis (Kenyon College Professor)

Broschiertes Buch

A Sisterhood of Sculptors

American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Melissa Dabakis is Professor of Art History at Kenyon College. She is the author of Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has served as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She is the 2013-2014 Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 232mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1326g
• ISBN-13: 9780271062204
• ISBN-10: 0271062207
• Artikelnr.: 42904320