Women in the Nineteenth-Century Art World

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Women in the Nineteenth-Century Art World Schools of Art and Design for Women in London and Philadelphia

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F. Graeme Chalmers

Book Code: GM0604

ISBN: 0-313-30604-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30604-4

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160 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/30/1998

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Art and Architecture

Series Number: 5

Reviews:

...art educators will find this book of substantial historical value.
—Choice
Chalmers has uncovered a seldom explored component in the historiography of women's art education, that of schools of design for women, branches of the early mechanics institutes, and layered upon that structure, a new way to view the more frequent themes of gender and class segregation within the arts.
—History of Education Quarterly

Description: A historical perspective on current issues, such as gender and class, is applied to art education and rendered through the study of two specific institutions, the Female School of Design in London and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Sweeping generalizations are avoided as women's history, intertwined with men's, unfolds in two cities on opposite continents. Women's struggles against male domination and prejudice to define for themselves art education for work provides the common theme uniting the social issues explored. Through this unique examination of the relationship between the two schools, women's place in British and American art education is reclaimed. The specific focus on two art and design schools should appeal to social, education and art scholars and historians as well as to students and researchers interested in women's and gender studies. The relationship between the two schools of art and design has never been fully explored. This new study of women's art education, through the lens of these two schools, is particularly engaging and provoking in light of its male authorhip.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations
Introduction
Neither Humble Nor Obedient: Fanny McIan and London's Female School of Design, 1842-1857
The Royal Female School of Art. Louisa Gann: A Humbler and More Cooperative Servant
The Philadelphia School of Design for Women, from the Home of the British Consul to the Franklin Institute for Mechanic Arts
Philadelphia's School of Design for Women: 1853-1900s
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 97-46521

LCC Class: N332

Dewey Class: 704


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