1st Edition
Artful Itineraries European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920
By Paul Fisher
Copyright 2000
308 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimize literary careers. Contrary to the myths they themselves disseminated, American writers in Europe did not escape American culture but rather created and participated in... Read more
Chapter 1 The Travel Writer as Pilgrim; Chapter 2 Impressionism and Cultural Authority; Chapter 3 The Contriving of the Connoisseur; Chapter 4 The Maîtresse de Maison Americanized; conclusion Conclusion: Career Authority and the Public in High Culture, 1865–1920;
Biography
Paul Fisher
