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Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940
Dianne Macleod
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Description for Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940
Hardback. Offers feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. This book shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage. Num Pages: 328 pages, 86 b/w photographs, 12 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 263 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1098.
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 through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of ... Read more
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 through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520237292
SKU
V9780520237292
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About Dianne Macleod
Dianne Sachko Macleod is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity.
Reviews for Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940
"A valuable addition to our belated understanding of the crucial role that women played outside the studio and inside the museum."
Robert Moeller Artnet Magazine "Brings to life the idea of the female collector and the limitless horizons that collecting embodied as ... expression." Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries "Macleod deftly demonstrates that collecting art served these women ... Read more
Robert Moeller Artnet Magazine "Brings to life the idea of the female collector and the limitless horizons that collecting embodied as ... expression." Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries "Macleod deftly demonstrates that collecting art served these women ... Read more