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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.

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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, publisher.
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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