Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century : Looking Like a Woman Hardback
by Hilary (Birkbeck, University of London) Fraser
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Hardback
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This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field.
It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity.
Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession.
It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2014
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- ISBN:9781107075757
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107075757
