Local/global : women artists in the nineteenth century / edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2005.Description: p. cmISBN:

0754631974 (alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

704.042 CHE

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	704.042 CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100308205

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century is the first book to investigate women artists working in disparate parts of the world. This major new book offers a dazzling array of compelling essays on art, architecture and design by leading writers: Joan Kerr on art in Australia by residents, migrants and visitors; Ka Bo Tsang on the imperial court in China; Gayatri Sinha on south Asian artists; Mary Roberts on harem portraiture of the Ottoman empire; Griselda Pollock on Parisian studios; Lynne Walker on women patron-builders in Britain; SÃghle Bhreathnach-Lynch and Julie Anne Stevens on Irish women artists; Ruth Phillips on souvenir art by native and settler women; Janet Berlo on North American textiles; Kristina Huneault on white settler identity in Canada; Charmaine Nelson on neo-classical sculpture in North America; and Stacie Widdifield on Mexico. This pioneering collection addresses issues at the heart of feminist and post-colonial studies: the nature of difference, discrepant modernities and cross-cultural encounters. Written in a lively and accessible style, this lavishly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on women, art and identity. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women artists and the art of the nineteenth century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
'same but different': women artists in Colonial Australia
In Her Majesty's service: women artists in China at the court of the Empress Dowager Cixi
Women artists in India: practice and patronage
Harem portraiture: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Egyptian princess Nazli Hanim
Louise Abbema's lunch and Alfred Stevens's studio: theatricality, feminine subjectivity and space around Sarah Bernhardt, Paris 1877-1888
Women patron-builders in Britain: identity, difference and memory in spatial and material culture
The Irish artist: crossing the Rubicon
Nuns, ladies, and the 'Queen of the Huron': embroidering and appropriating the noble savage
Placing Frances Ann Hopkins: a British-born artist in Colonial Canada
Chronicles in cloth: quiltmaking and female artistry in nineteenth-century America
Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra: white marble, black skin and the regulation of race in American Neoclassical Sculpture
Modernity and tradition: strategies of representation in Mexico
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Deborah Cherry is Professor of the History of Art at the University of the Arts, London, UK and Editor of Art History. Janice Helland is Professor of Art History and Women's Studies, and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Canada.