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Glasgow Girls
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the work of women artists and designers in Glasgow at the turn of the century. It is an investigation into their lives, their achievements and the historical circumstances in which they found themselves. Because of the breadth of its scope, it has involved gathering together contributions by a number of scholars working in a variety of different specialisms. Several of the texts are reproduced from earlier articles which have proved so influential that it was felt they deserved to be brought to a much wider readership. Placed in the context of an extensive body of new writings, the result is intended to offer as complete a survey of relevant scholarship in this field as is possible at the present time.
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Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three ‘forgotten’ artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism. Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Anning Bell and Frederick Cayley Robinson are resituated squarely within the tumultuous social and cultural changes of the period. Becoming visible again, in more inclusive histories, allows such artists not only to re-inhabit but to reshape narratives of modernism, reanimating the scholarly discourse and creating a dynamic cultural history of modern Britain expressed through their striking visions of womanhood. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, gender studies and British studies.
In Good Hands
The Canadian Handicrafts Guild broadened the definition of art and the artist in Canada. Linking decorative arts with home arts and handicrafts, the Guild consistently showed them together at annual exhibitions at the art gallery in Montreal and formed a permanent collection documenting old and contemporary crafts. The Guild women combined creativity and philanthropy, voluntarism and an entrepreneurial spirit, education and concern with quality, in a movement that provided income and recognition to craftspeople and a craft legacy to Canada. In Good Hands is alive with the interplay between art and social history, and the issues this dialogue raised at the time and those we bring to it now constantly overlap. It deals with noblesse oblige and the era's patronizing attitude to cultural difference, but shows how the Guild consciously fostered an inclusive national feeling by exhibiting and selling crafts of all Canadians on an equal footing. It also draws a much broader perspective of women's roles in shaping our culture than has been the norm in Canadian art history.
Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture
Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were fully cognizant of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce. In particular, they were increasingly alert to the symbolic significance of hairstyling. Among the writers and artists Ofek considers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Herbert Spencer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Aubrey Beardsley. By examining fiction, poetry, anthropological and scientific works, newspaper reviews and advertisements, correspondence, jewellery, paintings, and cartoons, Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century.
John Keats and Romantic Scotland
An edited collection on the poet John Keats's encounter with, and response to, Scottish literature, history, landscape, and culture during his walking tour of 1818 with his friend Charles Armitage Brown.
Glasgow 1900
This book covers the flowering of the visual arts that occurred in Glasgow between 1880 and 1914. Featured artists include Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jessie M. King, George Walton, Ernest Taylor and Francis Newbery.
Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this history by investigating the life and working conditions of a number of middle-class women who sought to establish themselves as professional artists in Scotland. Contrary to the orthodox view preoccupied with oppression and difficulty, the author demonstrates that women artists of the period were independent producers, teachers and travellers, alert to changes in taste and fashion. They derived great pleasure from their work, and enjoyed the benefits of women working together, forming their own and joining existing professional associations. The book is not biographical but elaborates on the life and working conditions of middle-class artists by discussing their work in terms of economic and social history.
The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700
This landmark publication collects the essays of the leading women's historians and provides the most coherent overview of women's role and place in Western Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
