| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York. By April F. Masten. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 318 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4071-9.)
April F. Masten claims that Art Work recaptures an incredibly egalitarian moment in American history when aesthetics, economics, politics and ethics came together to create an ideology called "the Unity of Art." [Based on the 1859] writings of British art critic John Ruskin, the ... ideal did not distinguish between fine and applied art, between imagination and execution, or between male and female artists. (p. 2)	1
Women artists thrived at midcentury due to a "particular combination of markets, ideas and institutions" that "provided them with places to train, venues for exhibitions and sales, and audiences for their work" (p. 3).	. . .

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