Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

Artistry and Industry in Britain

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Patricia Zakreski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27668-0 (ISBN)

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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 complicates conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional, public and private, artistry and industry in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender, artistic labour and creativity in the period. Ultimately, how women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the literary marketplace and related art-industries reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi is Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK. Patricia Zakreski is Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK.

Artistry and Industry – The Process of Female Professionalisation; I: Industrious Amateurism; 1: Women's Work; 2: Light Work; 3: Pertinacious Industry; 4: Dresses and Drapery; II: The Artistic Career; 5: Contrary to the Habits of Their Sex? Women Drawing on Wood and the Careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton; 6: The China Painter; 7: Creative Industry; 8: Dorothy's Career and Other Cautionary Tales; III: The Craft of Self-Fashioning; 9: Negotiating Fame; 10: Crafting the Woman Artist; 11: ‘Mady's tightrope walk': The Career of Marian Huxley Collier; 12: Living Art

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-27668-5 / 1138276685
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27668-0 / 9781138276680
Zustand	Neuware