Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe
by
Leis, Arlene, editor.
Title
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Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe
The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950.
Author
:
Leis, Arlene, editor.
ISBN
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9780367856663
Publication Information
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Physical Description
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xvii, 194 pages : illustrations;c26cm.
Series
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The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950.
Contents
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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.
Abstract
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"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.
Subject Term
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Women collectors -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections
Women collectors
Geographic Term
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Europe
Genre
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Electronic books.
History
Added Author
:
Leis, Arlene,
Wells, Kacie,
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 11003740 AM342 W66 yh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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| NPM Library | AM342 W66 2021 | 11003740 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |