Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Artistry and Industry in Britain
Redaktion: Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki; Zakreski, Patricia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. How women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the domestic handicraft movements, music, design, commercial illustration, china painting, and authorship reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317158646
• Artikelnr.: 45096684

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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