A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome

by Melissa Dabakis

Book Overview

This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned the Declaration of Sentiments for the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, she unleashed a powerful force in American society. In A Sisterhood of Sculptors, Melissa Dabakis outlines the conditions under which a group of American women artists adopted this egalitarian view...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271062207
• ISBN13: 9780271062204
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 9.9"