Description
This book offers a scholarly account of the emergence of needlepainting and Berlin Work, the most commonly practiced art form among European women in the first half of the 19th century.
About the Author
Rosika Desnoyers is an artist and holder of a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Reviews
Brilliantly situating embroidery in the paradoxical age of industry, Desnoyers encourages us to rethink assumptions about elite and amateur practices ... A necessary read for anyone concerned with questions of gender, capitalism and aesthetics in the emergence of modern disciplines. * T'ai Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada *
This cogently-argued reassessment of 19th-century pictorial embroidery, fine art and commerce reveals how the art of needlepainting and the subsequent practice of Berlin work involved issues of image production, industrial manufacture, education, cultural value and social mobility. Desnoyers enables us to view this history of embroidery with new understanding. * Victoria Mitchell, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350229396
Author Dr Rosika Desnoyers
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g