Format:
x, 337 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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24 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-520-35550-7
Content:
"Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Unusually for a woman, she specialized in landscape and streetscapes, traveling from the Hudson River to the Colorado Rockies and across Europe and North Africa. Her magnum opus-graphics of Old New York- awakened the public to the destruction of the city's architectural heritage during the post-Civil War era. Exploring Greatorex's fierce ambition and creative path, Katherine Manthorne reveals how one woman forged an independent career in a male-dominated world to help shape American gender politics, visual culture, and urban consciousness"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
1819-1897 Greatorex, Eliza
;
Biografie
;
Biographies
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Biografie
Author information:
Greatorex, Eliza 1819-1897
