Item Number: 119365 Title: Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in Nineteenth Century Art Author: Connor, Holly Pyne (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780764963292 Description: ed. Newark Museum. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2012. cm., hardcover, 184pp. illus. Exhibition held at Newark Museum of Art. Summary: Angels & Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th-Century American Art is a major traveling loan exhibition, which is the first to examine nineteenth-century depictions of girls in paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs. Featuring approximately 80 masterworks by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase, the exhibition analyzes the myriad ways that artists vigorously participated in the artistic and social construction of girlhood while also revealing the hopes and fears that adults had for their children. While the sentimental portrayal of girls as angelic, passive and domestic was the pervasive characterization, this project also identifies and investigates compelling and transgressive female images including tomboys, working children and adolescents. (^Available September 2012^) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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