Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940

by Dianne Sachko Macleod

This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520237293
• ISBN13: 9780520237292
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 10.0"