Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture

by Joy S. Kasson and Professor Joy S. Kasson

When nineteenth-century Americans looked at a statue of a nude woman in chains, or a shipwrecked mother and child, what did they see? When they talked or wrote about them, what did they say? In this engrossing book, Joy S. Kasson argues that there was a connection between the popularity of artworks such as these, which derive from a sentimental literary culture, and the rapidly changing social, economic, and political environment that was beginning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300045964
• ISBN13: 9780300045963
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 10.3"