Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Manthorne, Katherine (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Restless enterprise [Texte imprimé] : the art and life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex / Katherine Manthorne
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-337 p.) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Greatorex, Eliza (1819-1897) -- Critique et interprétation
Femmes artistes -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
700.92 (23e éd.) = Arts - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520355507. - ISBN 0520355504
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46841379v
Notice n° :
FRBNF46841379
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue : The old church ; Maeve's daughters : from Ireland to America, 1819-
; Art, domesticity, and enterprise, 1850- ; Civil war and architectural destruction
; Success in the New York art world, 1865- ; In the footsteps of Dürer, 1870- ;
Taming the west : summer Etchings in Colorado (1873) ; Old New York (1875) : witnessing
urban transformation ; Centennial women, 1876- ; Transatlantique: From New York
to Paris, from Cragsmoor to Morocco, 1878- ; Epilogue : Kathleen and Eleanor Greatorex
carrying on alone.
