Women, collecting, and cultures beyond Europe
Title:
Women, collecting, and cultures beyond Europe
Routledge research in gender and art
Routledge research in gender and art.
Author:
Leis, Arlene, editor.
ISBN:
9781032135465
9781032137858
Physical Description:
xxi, 257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Series:
Routledge research in gender and art
Routledge research in gender and art.
Contents:
Collecting to collectingism : new directions in womens' transcultural perspectives / Arlene Leis -- Collecting and trans-cultural exchange -- Europeanerie in feminine space : Qing imperial women and collecting in China's long eighteenth century / Chih-en Chen -- The Dzungar court costume of a Swedish knitting instructor / Lisa Hellman -- Trading places : the Japanese art collection of O'Tama Kiyohara Ragusa / Maria Antonietta Spadaro -- Created to gleam : decorum, taste and luxury of four dresses from viceregal Mexico / Martha Sandoval-Villegas and Laura Garcia -- Natural history, colonial encounters, and indigenous -- The botanist was a woman : classifying and collecting on the first French circumnavigation of the globe / Glynis Ridley -- Pineapple lady : Agnes Block's self-representation through collecting / Catherine Powell -- A memsahibs 'natural world': Lady Mary Impey's collection of Indian natural history paintings / Apurba Chatterjee -- The collection of huipiles in the eighteenth century and the so-called 'huipil de la Malinche' : female identity, otherness and exoticism / Martha Sandoval-Villegas -- Colonial pantomime : Queen Marie I of Portugal's collection of human dwarves / Agnieszka Anna Ficek -- Settlers, immigrants and new frontiers -- Settler botanists, nature's gentlemen, and the Canadian book of nature : re-reading Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian wild flowers / Cynthia Sugars -- Collecting Indian art in Santa Fe : the Bryn Mawrters and the politics of preservation / Nancy Owen -- Information classification : general -- The spectacle of sponsoring an Ottoman trousseau / Gwen Collaco -- Las Bexarenas and their wills : women's material culture and cataloguing practices in Spanish San Fernando de Bexar / Amy Porter -- Recovery, display, and repatriation -- "He surely existed" : Thomas W. Commeraw, forgotten African-American potter, and the early folk art collecting movement / Brandt Zipp -- Adjacency in the collection / Toby Upson -- Collecting fibre arts in Arnhem land / Louise Hamby -- From women's hands : learning from Metis women's collections / Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews.
Abstract:
"This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine women's collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and studies to consider how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Some authors focus mainly on what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, markets and display. This book amplifies women's voices, and positions their collecting practices in relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks. This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, collections and collecting, women's studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, scientific history, social and cultural histories"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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