Zoë Thomas

Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved around celebrated male designers like William Morris, it instead offers a new social and cultural account of the movement, which simultaneously reveals the breadth of the imprint of women art workers upon the making of modern society. Thomas provides unprecedented insight into how women navigated authoritative roles as 'art workers' by asserting expertise across a range of interconnected cultures: from the artistic to the professional, intellectual, entrepreneurial and domestic. Through examination of newly discovered institutional archives and private papers, Thomas elucidates the critical importance of the spaces around which women conceptualised alternative creative and professional lifestyles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526140456
• Artikelnr.: 59443560

Autorenporträt

Zoë Thomas is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Arts and Crafts movement, work cultures, and the politics
of gender
1 Clubhouses and guild halls
2 Exhibiting the Arts and Crafts
3 'At Home' in artistic houses and studios
4 'Artistic' businesses and 'medieval' workshops
5 Out of the guild hall and into the city
Epilogue
Select bibliography
Index