Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble - Paperback

$80.91

Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble - Paperback

Name: Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble - Paperback
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SKU: 9781350263680
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by Maria Quirk

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by Maria Quirk (Author), Kathryn Brown (Editor)

Women, Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women artists' commercial dealings to their professional identities and reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grounded in economic, social and art history, the book draws on and synthesises data from a broad range of documentary and archival sources to present a comprehensive history of women artists' professional status and business relationships within the complex and changing art market of late-Victorian England.

By providing new insights into the routines and incomes of women artists, and the spaces where they created, exhibited and sold their art, this book challenges established ideas about what women had to do to be considered 'professional' artists. More important than a Royal Academy education or membership to exhibiting societies was a woman's ability to sell her work. This meant that women had strong incentive to paint in saleable, popular and 'middlebrow' genres, which reinforced prejudices towards women's 'naturally' inferior artistic ability - prejudices that continued far into the twentieth century.

From shining a light on the difficult to trace pecuniary arrangements of little researched artists like Ethel Mortlock to offering new and direct comparisons between the incomes earned by male and female artists, and the genres, commissions and exhibitions that earned women the most money, Women, Art and Money is a timely contribution to the history of women's working lives that is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines.

Author Biography

Maria Quirk is an historian of women's and art history based at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Number of Pages: 248

Dimensions: 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: June 17, 2021

ISBN	9781350263680
Author	Maria Quirk
Publisher	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Genre	Business, Arts, and History
Format	Paperback
Published	June 2021
Language	ENG- English
Pages	248
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print