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A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ “Long awaited A Sisterhood of Sculptors is a rich and satisfying account of that brave band of nineteenthcentury Americans who defied Victorian conventions of womanhood to live in Italy as professional marble sculptors Melissa Dabakis embeds these audacious women in the struggles for suffrage and the politics of race as well as the pre1876 taste and demand for largescale neoclassical sculptures rendering them inseparable from the larger forces of history that shaped and confined

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ “Long awaited A Sisterhood of Sculptors is a rich and satisfying account of that brave band of nineteenthcentury Americans who defied Victorian conventions of womanhood to live in Italy as professional marble sculptors

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ At its core A Sisterhood of Sculptors is concerned with the gendered nature of creativity and expatriation Taking guidance from feminist theory cultural geography and expatriate and postcolonial studies Dabakis provides a detailed investigation of the historical phenomenon of women’s artistic lives in Rome in the midnineteenth century

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ Hosmer was among a few dozen American women sculptors who sought training in Rome during the third quarter of the nineteenth century the subject of Melissa Dabakis’s A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in NineteenthCentury Rome The project offers a new contribution to the study of American artists working in international contexts to the body of scholarship on American sculpture and its connections with political history and to the discussion of gender in art history

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ Midnineteenth century expatriot American women sculptors dubbed The White Marmorean Flock by the author Henry James settled in Rome to study and to build careers In the process they created new sculpture forms that in turn gave visual expression to the farreaching political and social issues of their time

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in NineteenthCentury Rome by Melissa Dabakis Reviewed by Laurinda S Dixon The Work of Art Pleinair Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenthcentury France by Anthea Callen Reviewed by Catherine Southwick The Symbolist Roots of Modern Art edited by Michelle Facos and Thor J Mednick

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ Melissa Dabakis A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in NineteenthCentury

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ “Long awaited A Sisterhood of Sculptors is a rich and satisfying account of that brave band of nineteenthcentury Americans who defied Victorian conventions of womanhood to live in Italy as professional marble sculptors

A Sisterhood of Sculptors American Artists in Nineteenth ~ Many of the works produced by the American sisterhood of sculptors during this time such as Hosmer’s Beatrice Cenci 1856 and Anne Whitney’s Roma 1868 communicated support for the Italian nationalist cause which Americans associated with progress and modernity Though Italy became a sovereign country in 1860 the Pope retained control of Rome for some years