British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940 (Material Culture of Art and Design) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501332155 ISBN 13: 9781501332159

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Synopsis

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women’s cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.

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About the Author

Michael Yonan is Professor of Art History/Alan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 1600–1830 at the University of California at Davis, USA. His research concentrates on eighteenth-century European art, particularly in Central Europe and Scandinavia; on the decorative arts, and on the theory and practice of material culture studies. With Stacey Sloboda he has co-edited Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Local and Global Geographies of Art for Bloomsbury Academic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501332155
• ISBN 13: 9781501332159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Dias Rosie