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Author:   Dr Rosika Desnoyers (Independent Scholar and Artist, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781350229396

ISBN 10:   1350229393
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction The Invention of Needlepoint Berlin Work and the Question of Domestic Craft Outline of the Book 1. Needlepainting in Great Britain Women Artists and Art Institutions in Eighteenth-Century England Mary Linwood and the Needlepainters Professionals and Amateurs 2. Imitation and Innovation in the Late Eighteenth Century Between Art and Industry Science and the Tasteful Person Copying and Luxury Goods 3. Towards an Industrial Aesthetic Proximity of Artistic and Scientific Invention Guidebooks and the Making of the Modern Amateur The Jacquard Loom and Its Curious Commemoration 4. The Writing of Pictorial Berlin Work Contemporary Embroidery Histories Nineteenth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Official Knowledge Twentieth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Submerged Knowledge Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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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

Author Information

Rosika Desnoyers is an artist and holder of a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

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