AtD redux, always...On the Chicago World's Fair

[Mark Kohut]

"The Oxford History of Art: 20th C. American Art" by Erika Doss starts with the fact--and art--of this defining event.  It makes fascinating reading. 

Book says that "the idealization" of women in art was a major, major theme of the Fair. Most valued being 'Virgin Enthroned" [http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&format=long&db=all&LastName=&FirstName=&Title=&Accession=1929.6.131&Keyword=]."Idealization" meaning females as pretty (in flowing things),
angelic, silent and subservient(in the poses, in general). 

Only Mary Cassatt had an artistically, heavily-dissed work there, featuring
women invoking the muses of math and science [shades of Yashmeen!] and dressed in all those colors, purple, etc. that TRP so dresses the women in
in AtD...! She "assaults" the eye wrote one 'critic'. Mary Cassatt!!

Given P's "new' women that pervade AtD, I wanted to share this.