The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800–1865 - Erika Schneider - Google Books

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This book analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers, active between 1800 and 1865, depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to adequately support them financially and intellectually. Without the traditional European forms of…