Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain

ISBN-13: 9781138276680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 306 str.

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi; Patricia Zakreski

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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