Victorian Women Artists - Hardcover

Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0704350157 ISBN 13: 9780704350151

Publisher: The Women's Press, 1987

Synopsis

"What were creative women doing while Edwin Landseer was immortalising dogs, stags and the British royal family? What experience did the female artist have of the natural environment while J.M.W.Turner was conducting a vaporous romance with sun, sea and mountains?... In short, what about Victorian women artists?" Women painting and sculpting professionally in nineteenth-century Britain directly challenged assumptions, not only about the nature and status of art, but also about women's economic relationship with society, with culture and with men. Yet the debate generated by these women has received little exposure in accounts of the Victorian period. In this richly illustrated, meticulously documented and wholly absorbing book, Pamela Gerrish Nunn examines the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists, their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world. And in so doing, she brings to our attention works of art (many of them reproduced in this book) which have not been seen in public for nearly a century. "Victorian Women Artists", in reclaiming them and their creators for the tradition, performs a service for contemporary artists, for scholarship and for all who care about art.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Women's Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0704350157
• ISBN 13: 9780704350151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242