Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture by Joy S. Kasson

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

Joy S. Kasson

293 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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When 19th century Americans looked at a statue of a nude woman in chains, or a shipwrecked mother and child, what did they see? The author argues that there was a connection between the popularity of artworks such as these, which derive from a sen...

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