Women building history
Subtitle: public art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
By: Wanda M. Corn ; with contributions by Charlene G. Garfinkle, Annelise K. Madsen
Contributors: Garfinkle, Charlene G.; Madsen, Annelise K.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780520241114
Subjects: Women in art; Mural painting and decoration; Women artists; Buildings, structures; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Sex role in art; Woman's Building (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago, Ill.); Themes, motives; History
Description: History of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neoclassical Woman's Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman's progress in education, arts, and sciences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. 227-239) and index.