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Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe
Title
Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Arlene Leis and Kacie L. Wells.
ISBN
0367856670
1000175189
1000175200
1000175227
9780367856670
9781000175189
9781000175202
9781000175226
9780367856663
Publication
New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 194 pages) : illustrations.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York. Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.
Summary
"Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects -- some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women's role as producers, that is creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts -- both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts -- exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women's studies, gender studies, and art conservation"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Women and the cultures of collecting
1. Science, gender and collecting : the Dutch eighteenth-century Ladies' Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg
2. Between art and science : portraits of citrus fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
3. Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still life with sea shells and coral
4. Maria Sibylla Merian : a woman's pioneering work in entomology
5. Sarah Sophia Banks's coin collection : female networks of exchange
6. Conversing with collecting the world : elite female sociability and learning through objects in the Age of Enlightenment
7. Portrait of Charlotte de France : from Naples to Sicily, a collection in transit
8. The collecting activity of Catherine II in eighteenth-century Russia : pioneering action or sheer demonstration of power?
9. I made memorandums : Mary Hamilton, sociability, and antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century collection
10. Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade caryatid
11. Anne Wagner's album (1795-1805) : collecting feminine friendship
12. An art cabinet in miniature : the dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
13. Collection, display, and conservation : the Print Room at Castletown House
14. Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970) : a lady's collection of eighteenth-century folding fans.
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