Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel
Editat de Jordana Pomeroyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 dec 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780754650720
ISBN-10: 0754650723
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0754650723
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Women's artistic passages, Dianne Sachko Macleod; With palettes, pencils, and parasols: Victorian women artists traverse the Empire, Susan P. Casteras; Borders and boundaries, perspectives and place: Victorian women's travel writing, Maria H. Frawley; 'We Got Upon Our Elephant & Went Out After Subjects': Capturing the World in Watercolor, Jordana Pomeroy; 'A dream of beauty': inscribing the English garden in Victorian India, Romita Ray; Women and the Natural World: Expanding Horizons at Home, Ann B. Shteir; Shifting continents, shifting species: Louisa Anne Meredith at 'home' in Tasmania, Barbara T. Gates; Emma Macpherson in the 'blacks' camp' and other Australian interludes: a Scottish lady artist's tour in New South Wales in 1856-57, Caroline Jordan; Cameron's colonized Eden: picturesque politics at the edge of the Empire, Jeff Rosen; Selected bibliography; Index.
Notă biografică
Jordana Pomeroy is the Curator of Painting & Sculpture before 1900 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA. She has published widely on many aspects of art collecting, patronage, and production in nineteenth-century England.
Recenzii
'Victorian and gender studies will benefit from this collection of new insights into the lives, actions and art of these intrepid women.' The Art Book
’Intrepid Women addresses themes that are currently at the forefront of scholarship, including tourism and the extended Grand Tour, travel writing, imperialism and colonialism, home and displacement and cross-cultural experiences... The diversity of these essays and the wider issues they touch on make for a stimulating read.’ Women's History Magazine
’Intrepid Women addresses themes that are currently at the forefront of scholarship, including tourism and the extended Grand Tour, travel writing, imperialism and colonialism, home and displacement and cross-cultural experiences... The diversity of these essays and the wider issues they touch on make for a stimulating read.’ Women's History Magazine
Descriere
Drawing upon sketches, paintings, and photographs, Intrepid Women is a groundbreaking study that examines the art that women produced while travelling, as well as the circumstances that brought these artists - both amateurs and professionals - far beyond the reaches of the traditional Grand Tour.