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Suffrage and the Arts - Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise (Hardcover)
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Suffrage and the Arts - Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise (Hardcover)
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Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic
women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers,
through to retailers of 'artistic' products-played in the suffrage
campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were
foot soldiers who helped sustain the momentum of the movement and
as designers, makers and sellers they spread the message of the
campaign to new local, national and international audiences,
mediating how suffrage activism was understood by society at large.
Published to coincide with the centenary of the 1918 Representation
of the People Act, which granted the vote to women over the age of
thirty meeting a property qualification, this edited collection
offers a range of new perspectives and readings of the outpouring
of creative responses to the campaign. Contributors, who include
historians, art historians, curators, museum professionals and
suffrage experts, call upon the historiographical developments of
the last thirty years, alongside new archival discoveries, to
showcase the vibrancy of ongoing research in this area. Throughout,
chapters investigate the wider socio-cultural backdrop to suffrage
and the women's movement, the difficult choices that were made
between professional, artistic aspirations and political
commitment, and how institutional and informal networks influenced
creative expression and participation in feminist politics. From
shining light on the use of portraiture to bolster the cultural
cachet of the militant Women's Social and Political Union,
uncovering the links between Victorian interior design, enterprise
and suffrage, through to questioning the supposed conservativism of
women's art institutions during the campaign and in the inter-war
era, Suffrage and the Arts is a timely and important collection
which will contribute to a number of scholarly fields.
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