Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

di Hilary Fraser (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2016

This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.

• Autore: Hilary Fraser
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 254 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 153 mm
• Peso: 380 gr.
• EAN: 9781107428744

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