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OverviewThe little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status in the 18th and 19th centuries. From Enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9781350229396ISBN 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  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsBrilliantly 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 InformationRosika Desnoyers is an artist and holder of a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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