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Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a 'blockbuster'
exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great
fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of
both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as
decorative objects. Meaghan Clarke argues that the exhibition
challenged contemporary assumptions about the representation of
women and the superficiality of female collectors. The Fair Women
phenomenon complicated gender stereotypes and foregrounded women as
cultural arbiters. This book uncovers a wide range of texts and
images to reveal that Fair Women brought together fashion,
modernity and gender politics in new and surprising ways. It shows
that, while invariably absent in institutional histories, women
were vital to the development of the modern blockbuster exhibition.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art and gender
studies, museum studies, feminist art history, women artists and
art history.
Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art
in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke
employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the
significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws
on a diversity of sources, including diaries, letters and
periodicals, to highlight the many different forms their criticism
took. Focusing in particular on the work of three women - Alice
Meynell, Florence Fenwick-Miller and Elizabeth Robins Pennell -
Clarke argues that in order to understand fully art debates of the
time it is essential we broaden our understanding of the role of
women in the construction of art history. John Singer Sargent,
James MacNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth
Butler, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Leighton, Walter Sickert,
Henrietta Rae, and Rosa Bonheur are among the artists considered.
Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art
in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke
employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the
significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws
on a diversity of sources, including diaries, letters and
periodicals, to highlight the many different forms their criticism
took. Focusing in particular on the work of three women - Alice
Meynell, Florence Fenwick-Miller and Elizabeth Robins Pennell -
Clarke argues that in order to understand fully art debates of the
time it is essential we broaden our understanding of the role of
women in the construction of art history. John Singer Sargent,
James MacNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth
Butler, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Leighton, Walter Sickert,
Henrietta Rae, and Rosa Bonheur are among the artists considered.
Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a 'blockbuster'
exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great
fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of
both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as
decorative objects. Meaghan Clarke argues that the exhibition
challenged contemporary assumptions about the representation of
women and the superficiality of female collectors. The Fair Women
phenomenon complicated gender stereotypes and foregrounded women as
cultural arbiters. This book uncovers a wide range of texts and
images to reveal that Fair Women brought together fashion,
modernity and gender politics in new and surprising ways. It shows
that, while invariably absent in institutional histories, women
were vital to the development of the modern blockbuster exhibition.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art and gender
studies, museum studies, feminist art history, women artists and
art history.
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