Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England : the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quirk, Maria, author.

Series:

Contextualizing art markets.

Contextualizing art markets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--England--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--England--History--20th century.

Art--Economic aspects--England--History--19th century.

Art.

Art--Economic aspects--England--History--20th century.

Women artists--England--Economic conditions.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Queensland, 2015.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501343087

1501343084

9781501343063

1501343068

9781501343070

1501343076

OCLC:

1086547552