Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935

The Gender of Ornament

Elliott, Bridget; Helland, Janice

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2002

322

Dura

Inglês

9780754605966

0754605965

This text examines the decorative strategies of late 19th- and early 20th-century women artists, concentrating in particular on women artists who turned to fashion, interior design and artisanal production as ways of critically engaging various aspects of modernity.
Patterns of Life - The Art and Design of Phoebe Traquair and Mary Watts, Elizabeth Cumming; May Morris - Ubiquitous, Invisible Arts and Craftswoman, Jan Marsh; Decorating the Object - Ceramics, Gender and the Work of Women Designers, Cheryl Buckley; Progressive Femininity - Thea Proctor and the Australian Avant-Garde, Pamela Gerrish Nunn; The Performative Art of Court Dress, Janice Helland; "She Would Not Cook the Spaghetti" - Domestic and Decorative Femininity and the Film Designs of Natacha Rambova, Jen Cottrill; Laura Nagy - Magyar Muse, Sandra Alfoldy; Engendering the Spaces of Modernity - The Exhibition of Women's Work, Amsterdam 1913, Jane Beckett; Housing the Work - Women Artists, Modernism and the Maison d'Artiste - Eileen Gray, Romaine Brooks and Gluck, Bridget Elliott; Crystal Flowers, Pink Candy Hearts and Tinsel Creation - The Subversive Femininity of Florine Stettheimer, Barbara Bloemink.