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Creators and consumers : women and material culture and visual art in 19th-century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest / [presented by] Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens.
Fine Arts Library HQ1438.S63 D38 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- David B. Warren Symposium (5th : 2015 : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), author.
- Series:
- David B. Warren Symposium ; Volume 5.
- The David B. Warren Symposium ; Volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Southern States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Women.
- Women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century--Congresses.
- Women consumers--Southern States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Women consumers.
- Material culture--Southern States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Material culture in art--Congresses.
- Material culture in art.
- Women and the arts--Southern States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Women and the arts.
- Women--Social conditions.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 140 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houston : The Museum of Fine Arts, [2016]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Bonnie A. Campbell
- Carving out creative enterprise as a woman in Texas, 1836-1900 / Paula Marks
- A luxury purchase in troublesome times : Harriet Flower Mathews's antebellum parlor / Mel Buchanan
- The material culture of freedom : African American women and the southern free Black home after the Civil War / Whitney Nell Stewart
- Mary Bella Prague Brice : "woman of marked literary and artistic attainments" in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Katie Burlison
- Quilts, the democratic art in three nineteenth-century examples from Texas and the Lower South / Katherine J. Adams
- Women's experiences of making and wearing sunbonnets in nineteenth-century Texas / Rebecca Jumper Matheson
- "Weaving beautiful garlands of immortelles" : Mattanna Fairchild and decorative memorial works / Lauren Clark
- Contributors
- Photograph credits.
- Notes:
- "This publication contains the revised and expanded proceedings of the fifth biennial David B. Warren Symposium, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on October 23-24, 2015, as a result of a national call for papers to support the 2015 theme, 'Women and Material Culture and Visual Art in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest.'"--Page x.
- "The David B. Warren Symposium, Volume 5."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780890901892
- 0890901899
- OCLC:
- 949828021
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