Women On The Verge: The Culture of Neurasthenia In Nineteenth-century American Art - Softcover

Ross, Zachary; Glesmann, Amanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937031259 ISBN 13: 9780937031254

Publisher: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for, 2004

Synopsis

The exhibition catalogued here explores the pictorial and cultural manifestations of the 19th century female affliction known as "neurasthenia." Along with reproductions of paintings of upper-class women in apparent nervous or melancholy states, the exhibit contains contemporaneous prints and advertising images of women at work and play. The essays address such topics as neurasthenia then and now, the aesthetics of repose, and the emergence of the Gibson Girl. The publisher is the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0937031259
• ISBN 13: 9780937031254
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 85
• Editor: Williams Katherine