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The Greek Slave on View in the Dusseldorf Gallery

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Description: Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
No nineteenth-century artwork tells us more about the cultural construction of gender than Hiram Powers’ The Greek Slave of 1844 (fig. 16). This life-sized standing nude woman...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.46-72
Description: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
~~John Vanderlyn had the world ahead of him. It was the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the young American who was living in Paris had already won acclaim for two powerful history paintings that had proven him to be not only up-to-date in his pictorial aesthetics but also strikingly political.
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-53
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.004

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