The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800-1865
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Apr 23, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781611494129
Description: Analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to support them financially and intellectually, employing the struggling or starving artist image to satirize the country's lack of patronage and immortalize their own struggle.