Inventing the modern artist: art and culture in Gilded Age America

pt. 1. The traffic in images. Finding the "real" American artist ; The artist in the age of surfaces : the culture of display and the taint of trade

pt. 2. Sickness and health. Fighting infection : aestheticism, degeneration, and the regulation of artistic masculinity ; Painting as rest cure

pt. 3. Gender on the market. Outselling the feminine ; Being big : Winslow Homer and the American business spirit.