| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Contextualizing art markets
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Contextualizing art markets.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Queensland, 2015. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Section One -- Chapter One: Training for the Market -- Chapter Two: Commerce and Family in the Home Studio -- Chapter Three: Single Ladies and Studio Celebrities -- Section Two -- Chapter Four: Academy Politics -- Chapter Five: Members of the Club -- Chapter Six: Making a living through middle-class demand -- Chapter Seven: Portraiture and Patronage -- Chapter Eight: Illustrating Success. |
| Summary |
"Women, Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women artists' commercial dealings to their professional identities and reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grounded in economic, social and art history, the book draws on and synthesises data from a broad range of documentary and archival sources to present a comprehensive history of women artists' professional status and business relationships within the complex and changing art market of late-Victorian England. By providing new insights into the routines and incomes of women artists, and the spaces where they created, exhibited and sold their art, this book challenges established ideas about what women had to do to be considered 'professional' artists. More important than a Royal Academy education or membership to exhibiting societies was a woman's ability to sell her work. This meant that women had strong incentive to paint in saleable, popular and 'middlebrow' genres, which reinforced prejudices towards women's 'naturally' inferior artistic ability - prejudices that continued far into the twentieth century. From shining a light on the difficult to trace pecuniary arrangements of little researched artists like Ethel Mortlock to offering new and direct comparisons between the incomes earned by male and female artists, and the genres, commissions and exhibitions that earned women the most money, Women, Art and Money is a timely contribution to the history of women's working lives that is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women artists -- England -- Economic conditions.
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Women artists. |
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England. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Art -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Art -- Economic aspects. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Art -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Art and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and society. |
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Art and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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ART / Subjects & Themes / General. |
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Women artists -- Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Quirk, Maria, author. Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019 9781501343056 (DLC) 2019007178 |
| ISBN |
9781501343070 ebook |
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1501343076 ebook |
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9781501343056 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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