Title: Inventing the modern artist
First published: 1996
Description: Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture.

Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, she investigates how artists reacted to the growing power of the media, to an expanding consumer society, to the need for a specifically American artist type, and to the problem of gender.
Subjects: American Art, Psychology, Art and society, Artists, Art, American, History, Artists, psychology, Art, modern, 20th century, history, Art, american, history, United states, intellectual life, United states, civilization, 20th century, Popular culture, united states, Art américain, Artistes, Psychologie, Art et société, Histoire, Künstler, Kunst, Kunstsoziologie, Sozialgeschichte, Beeldende kunsten, Maatschappij, Kunstenaars, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: N6510 .B87 1996