Enchanted lives, enchanted objects
American women collectors and the making of culture, 1800-1940
by Dianne Sachko Macleod
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"This book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage."--Jacket.
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Women art collectors, History, Art, collectors and collecting, Women, united states, historyPlaces
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Enchanted lives, enchanted objects: American women collectors and the making of culture, 1800-1940
2008, University of California Press
in English
0520237293 9780520237292
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