Women in the Victorian art world / edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : St. Martin\'s Press [distributor], c1995.Description: xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0719041236 (pbk.)
- 704.042 CAM
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This fully illustrated text examines women in the Victorian art world, in relation to femininity and the feminist movement. Academics, including Deborah Cherry, Pam Hirsch and Jan Marsh examine issues of gender, class and national identity through their analysis of the practice and represenation of women during the 19th century. Topics covered include painting, architecture, art education, collecting, art criticism and the leading feminist and artist, Barbara Bodichon. In addition to bringing together a wide range of topics and issues, this book also offers revisions of current historical debates on the division between the female, private sphere and the male, public sphere. It re-examines the question of the lady amateur watercolourist, while also exploring the ways in which women negotiated their ambitions for public recognition.
Art, ambition and sisterhood in the l850s / Jan Marsh -- Women artists and the politics of feminism 1850-1900 / Deborah Cherry -- Vistas of pleasure : women consumers of urban space in the West End of London 1850-1900 / Lynne Walker -- The Corinne complex : gender, genius and national culture / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- Critically speaking / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- Private pleasure public beneficence : Lady Charlotte Schreiber and ceramic collecting / Ann Eatwell -- Amusement or instruction? Watercolour manuals and the woman amateur / Francisn Irwin -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, artist and activist / Pam Hirsch -- Art education for women in the 1860s : a decade of debate / Sara M. Dodd.