1st Edition
Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure
By Janice Helland
Copyright 2000
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this history by investigating the life and working conditions of a number of middle-class women who sought to establish themselves as professional artists in Scotland. Contrary to the orthodox view preoccupied with oppression and difficulty,... Read more
Introduction. 1. Sexual Economics and the Gendered Spaces of Art Education. 2. Guild and Venue: Women Artists, Exhibition Spaces, and 'Separate' Societies. 3. An Earnest Band of Workers in the Field of Art. 4. Locality and Pleasure in Landscape: A Study of Three Nineteenth-Century Scottish Watercolourists. 5. Friends and Colleagues. 6. Energy to Fearlessness: The Artist as Exotic. 7. Afterthoughts.
Biography
Janice Helland
