Local/Global

Local/Global

Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century

Helland, Janice; Cherry, Deborah

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2006

272

Dura

Inglês

9780754631972

15 a 20 dias

Investigates women artists working in disparate parts of the world. This illustrated book offers an array of essays on art, architecture and design. It presents fresh perspectives on women, art, and identity, and is useful to those interested in the history of women artists and the art of the nineteenth century.
Contents: Introduction, Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; 'Same but different': women artists in colonial Australia, Joan Kerr; In Her Majesty's service: women painters in China at the court of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Ka Bo Tsang; Women artists in India: practice and patronage, Gayatri Sinha; Harem portraiture: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Egyptian Princess Nazli Hanim, Mary Roberts; Louise Abbema's Lunch and Alfred Stevens's Studio: theatricality, feminine subjectivity and space around Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1877-1888, Griselda Pollock; Women patron-builders in Britain: identity, difference and memory in spatial and material culture, Lynne Walker; The Irish artist: crossing the Rubicon, SA-ghle Bhreathnach-Lynch and Julie Anne Stevens; Nuns, ladies, and the 'Queen of the Hurons': souvenir art and the negotiation of North American identities, Ruth B. Phillips; Placing Frances Ann Hopkins: a British-born artist in Colonial Canada, Kristina Huneault; Chronicles in cloth: quilt-making and female artistry in nineteenth-century America, Janet Berlo; Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra: white marble, black skin and the regulation of race in American Neoclassical Sculpture, Charmaine Nelson; Modernity and tradition: strategies of representation in Mexico, Stacie G. Widdifield; Index.
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