Women patrons and collectors / edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana Turpin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracken, Susan (Susan Caroline)

Gáldy, Andrea M.

Turpin, Adriana

University of London. Institute of Historical Research.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women art collectors--Europe--Congresses.

Women art collectors.

Women art patrons--Europe--Congresses.

Women art patrons.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Summary:

As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women,not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role. Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life.

Notes:

"Most of these essays are based on papers given at the 'Women Collectors' conference held in London [Institute of Historical Research, University of London] in July 2008."--P. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-181) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443834643

1443834645

OCLC:

768569600