Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York by Ruth E Iskin

Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York by Ruth E Iskin

"You’ll never look at Cassatt the same way again."—A Hyperallergic Favorite Art Book of 2025

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

Finalist for the Marfield Book Prize

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.

“A close, perceptive examination of the life and work of Mary Cassatt in the context of American and European art, culture, and political change, particularly the women’s suffrage movement” * Kirkus Reviews *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780520355453
ISBN 10	0520355458
Title	Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York
Author	Ruth E Iskin
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2025-01-28
Number of pages	344
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