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Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century
. Ed(S): Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki; Zakreski, Patricia
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Editor(s): Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki; Zakreski, Patricia. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 253 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that ... Read more
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138276680
SKU
V9781138276680
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Ref
99-1
About . Ed(S): Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki; Zakreski, Patricia
Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi is Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK. Patricia Zakreski is Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK.
Reviews for Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century
’This exciting, insightful and thoughtful collection complicates the concept of the professional woman artist, blurring the boundaries between the so-called domestic crafts and art production.’ Janice Helland, Queen’s University, Canada 'C’est l’analyse de forms artisanales/artistiques mineures qui fait la force de cet ouvrage, notamment en mettant en valeur la production des femmes artistes mal connues ou anonymes. De ... Read more