A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting / Edition 1

by Elree I. Harris, Shirley R. Scott

Overview

First Published in 1997. This book is intended as a resource for anyone interested in the artistic contributions and activities of women in nineteenth-century Britain. It is an index as well as an annotated bibliography and provides sources for information about women well known in their own time and about women who were little known then and are forgotten now

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815300403
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1997
Series:	Women's History and Culture Series , #12
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elree I. Harris, Shirley R. Scott

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1: Victorian Women Painters Escape into Allegory, Chapter 2: Exhibitions Going Public, Chapter 3: Models ''The Tyranny of the Ideal, Chapter 4: Criticism, Art Schools, and Reviews, Integration and Commitment, Index of Names and Dates, Index of Annotations

Editorial Reviews

Covering both the Victorian period and modern histories of that time, the bibliography includes contemporary reviews, books, articles, essays, and dissertations and is divided into two parts: women as painters and as models. Also included are general studies of women painters and images of women. A list of and an index to the paintings discussed in the entries is a particularly useful feature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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