Women in the Victorian art world

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Women in the Victorian art world

edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Women artists and the politics of feminism, Deborah Cherry
  • ambition and friendship, Jan Marsh
  • speaking critically, Pamela Gerrish Nunn
  • the Corrinne complex - gender, genius and national character, Clarrisa Campbell Orr
  • a collection for the nation - Lady Charlotte Schreiber's collection of English ceramics, Ann Eatwell
  • Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon - the disinterested eye, Pam Hirsch
  • amusement or instruction? - watercolour manuals and the women amateur, Francina Irwin
  • educating for art or for women's sphere - women's art education in the 1860s, Sara Dodd
  • women's places, women's spaces - women and architecture, Lynne Walker.

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