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Article: Joy S. Kasson, Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- December 22, 1991
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Joy S. Kasson, Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture (Yale UP, 1990), 293 pp., 105 illustrations, $40 cloth.
The group of artists analyzed by Joy S. Kasson includes American sculptors of the neo-classical school influenced by Bertel Thorwaldsen and Antonio Canova. Many of these sculptors--Hiram Powers, Erastus Dow Palmer, Joseph Mozier. Edward Brackett, William Wetmore Story, Harriet Hosmer--are not well known in current artistic circles and may be even less familiar to literary scholars. The author, however, makes their careers relevant through investigation of their representation of women in so-called ideal sculpture. Just ...