Restless enterprise: the art and life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
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Main Author: Manthorne, Katherine 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
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Abstract:"Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Unusually for a woman, she specialized in landscape and streetscapes, traveling from the Hudson River to the Colorado Rockies and across Europe and North Africa. Her magnum opus-graphics of Old New York- awakened the public to the destruction of the city's architectural heritage during the post-Civil War era. Exploring Greatorex's fierce ambition and creative path, Katherine Manthorne reveals how one woman forged an independent career in a male-dominated world to help shape American gender politics, visual culture, and urban consciousness"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:x, 337 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780520355507