Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York

The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-35545-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 262 mm x 184 mm, Gewicht: 1084 g

"An authoritative, beautifully illustrated study."—Kirkus Reviews

The first comprehensive study of Cassatt’s life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework.

This book re-envisions Mary Cassatt in the context of her transatlantic network, friendships, exhibitions, politics, and legacy. Rather than defining her as either an American artist or a French impressionist, author Ruth E. Iskin argues that we can best understand Cassatt through the complexity of her multiple identifications as an American patriot, a committed French impressionist, and a suffragist.

Contextualizing Cassatt’s feminist outlook within the intense pro- and anti-suffrage debates in the United States, Iskin shows how these impacted her artistic representations of motherhood, fatherhood, and older women. Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York also argues for the historical importance of her work as an advisor to American collectors, and demonstrates the role of museums in shaping her legacy, highlighting the combined impact of gender, national, and transnational dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iskin, Ruth E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Cassatt’s Transatlantic Network

2. Cassatt and Louisine Havemeyer: Collaboration, Suffrage, Alliance, and Affective Bond

3. Cassatt and Degas: Camaraderie, Conflict, and Legacy
4. Cassatt’s Transatlantic Feminism

5. Cassatt’s Art and the Suffrage Debates of Her Time
6. The 1915 Cassatt and Degas Exhibition in New York
7. Cassatt’s Legacy: Art Museums and National Identity

Abbreviations

Notes
Selected Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth E. Iskin is author of Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting and The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s, editor of Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon, and coeditor of Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera. She is Professor Emerita at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her work has been translated into eight languages.