Beyond the Frame : Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900

ISBN-13: 9780415107266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Deborah Cherry

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Beyond the Frame challenges the history of Victorian art to redefine the relationship between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. While few gallery visitors, art collectors or browsers of the illustrated press would have been aware of feminism, the campaign for women's rights was an increasingly vocal force which provoked debate as much in the columns of Art Journal as in the pages of Punch. In this study, Deborah Cherry discusses painting, sculpture, photography, engravings, embroidery and comic drawings of the period to build a picture of how artists participated in the social upheaval of the day, campaigned for and against women's rights, spoke out on sexuality, and intervened in the visual languages of the day to create challenging new images of women. Cherry brings into focus both well-known figures such as Edward Burne-Jones, J.E. Millais, Gwen John, Jane Morris and Julia Margaret Cameron, and a host of lesser-known artists, including Emily Mary Osborn, Joanna Boyce, Barbara Bodichon and Margaret Dicksee.

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section 01 1 Artists and militants, 1850-66; Section 01-01-01 Artists and militants; Section 01-01-02 Geographies of art and feminism; Section 01-01-03 Modern women, modern life; Section 01-01-04 Writing women, art and feminism; Section 02 2 In/between the colonial theatre: visuality, visibility and modernity; Section 02-01-01 Shuttling, ‘soul making’ and the art of travel; Section 02-01-02 Modernity, visuality and visibility; Section 03 3 The ‘worlding’ of Algeria: feminism, imperialism and visual culture; Section 03-01-01 Worlding; Section 03-01-02 ‘a texting, textualising’: feminist subjects in the landscape; Section 03-01-03 ‘a making into art, a making into an object to be understood’; Section 04 4 Harriet Hosmer’s Zenobia: a question of authority; Section 04-01-01 Authorship and authority; Section 04-01-02 The making of a name and a statue; Section 04-01-03 Warrior queen, savant and woman of colour; Section 05 5 Tactics and allegories, 1866-1900; Section 05-01-01 Feminist politics and professional strategies; Section 05-01-02 Women, power, knowledge: the image of the learned woman in the 1860s; Section 05-01-03 Feminism and the tactics of representation; Section 05-01-04 Towards an allegorical reading; Appendix: selected publications on Algeria, 1857–68; Notes; Suggestions for further reading; Index;

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Deborah Cherry is Professor of the Histoy of Art at the University of Sussex. Her previous publications include Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists (Routledge 1993).