Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

Artistry and Industry in Britain

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

Artistry and Industry in Britain

About this book

Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that complicates conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional, public and private, artistry and industry in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender, artistic labour and creativity in the period. Ultimately, how women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the literary marketplace and related art-industries reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.

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Yes, you can access Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi,Patricia Zakreski in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781317158646
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword by Linda H. Peterson
  10. Introduction: Artistry and Industry – The Process of Female Professionalisation
  11. PART I: INDUSTRIOUS AMATEURISM
  12. PART II: THE ARTISTIC CAREER
  13. PART III: THE CRAFT OF SELF-FASHIONING
  14. Index