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Mary Seton Watts 1849 1938
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Author : Veronica Franklin Gould
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 1998
Mary Seton Watts 1849 1938 written by Veronica Franklin Gould and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
Mary Seton Watts, symbolist, craftswoman, so cialist and pioneer of Liberty''s Celtic style, created one o f the most remarkable art nouveau buildings in Britain - the Watts Chapel in Compton, Surrey. '
Mary Seton Watts 1849 1938
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Author : Veronica Franklin Gould
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 1998
Mary Seton Watts 1849 1938 written by Veronica Franklin Gould and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
Mary Seton Watts, symbolist, craftswoman, so cialist and pioneer of Liberty''s Celtic style, created one o f the most remarkable art nouveau buildings in Britain - the Watts Chapel in Compton, Surrey. '
Mary Seton Watts
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Author : Camille Audette Sabourin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Mary Seton Watts written by Camille Audette Sabourin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938) was an important artist and activist of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England. Although she was successful in her lifetime, her legacy has been forgotten through time. McGill University's Royal Victoria College in Montreal houses Our Lady of the Snows, a banner designed and embroidered by Seton Watts. The banner is hung unidentified in the hallways of the building which now serves as university housing. Our Lady of the Snows was part of a commission from the then governor general of Canada, Lord Grey in 1906. This project was in accordance to Lord Grey's wish to instill an imperial presence within Canadian universities. He ordered a series of embroidered banners from English gentlewomen and specifically requested they depict Saint George and the Dragon. However, of the two banners he received from Seton Watts, neither included the theme he had asked for. While Our Lady of the Snows was sent to Montreal, Spirit of the Flowers of the Nation was never displayed as part of his project. This thesis sets out to position Our Lady of the Snows at the intersection of Seton Watts's feminist activism and artistic activity. Throughout her career, she exhibited how her art and values formed a symbiotic relationship. She used art in service of her social engagement and let her political beliefs transpire in her extensive symbolic language. Painter, potter, needleworker, designer, entrepreneur, activist and suffragist, Mary Seton Watts left a legacy that is extraordinary in its refusal to submit to artistic and societal expectations. She created this banner at a crucial moment in the history of the movement for women's suffrage. Banners were becoming an iconic symbol of suffragist processions and were used to reclaim needlework while fighting for women's rights. A close technical and symbolic reading of the banner positions the object as in direct dialogue with suffragist banners, as well as an emblematic demonstration of the union of art and activism in the work of Mary Seton Watts.
An Artist S Village
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Author : Mark Bills
language : en
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Release Date : 2011-06-30
An Artist S Village written by Mark Bills and has been published by Philip Wilson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Art categories.
"This book tells the story of the impact of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and his wife Mary Seton Watts (nee Fraser-Tytler, 1849-1938) on Compton, a small village in Surrey. Initially, the village acted as an autumnal and winter retreat for the artist and the designer, but became the permanent base for their work and the home of the Watts Gallery, the Compton Pottery with its studios and workshops, and the extraordinary Cemetery Chapel. A nationally significant site, it includes a gallery that holds an internationally important collection, and Arts and Crafts chapel by Mary Watts, a Great Studio house named 'Linnerslease' designed by Sir Ernest George, and the Compton Pottery buildings. More than a guide book, it presents a complete history and guide that will appeal to readers who wish to know the story of a unique artists' village. The book is richly illustrated with new photography, historic photographs and contextual material which give a sense of the significance of art and artists in the late nineteenth-century, and reveal a continuous and living philosophy at the heart of a Surrey village."--BOOK JACKET.
Women Art And Money In England 1880 1914
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Author : Maria Quirk
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-05-16
Women Art And Money In England 1880 1914 written by Maria Quirk and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with Art categories.
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.
Writing Lives Together
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Author : Felicity James
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-27
Writing Lives Together written by Felicity James and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives together’: British life writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this book range over published and unpublished material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary, practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet, Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736–1819) and his family, in a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time, across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Mary Seton Watts And The Compton Pottery
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Author : Hilary Calvert
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Mary Seton Watts And The Compton Pottery written by Hilary Calvert and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
This comprehensive book is both a biographical exploration of the early life of Mary Seton Watts and a survey of the pottery she designed. Her roots in Scotland, her artistic career and her marriage to the Victorian artist George Frederic Watts all influenced the design of the Grade 1 listed Cemetery Chapel at Compton and the art potteries which she then set up, both in Compton (The Potters' Arts Guild) and in her home village near Inverness. The pottery at Compton was in business for more than fifty years, making terracotta garden ware, memorials and small decorative pieces. It remained open through two World Wars and a trade depression. This highly illustrated publication showcases the beautiful and individual pieces of pottery and is a fitting tribute to the ability of Mary Watts to coordinate both people and resources.
Majesty In Canada
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Author : Colin Coates
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2006-02-04
Majesty In Canada written by Colin Coates and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-04 with History categories.
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays that were presented at that conference reflect the wide-ranging recognitions of the different roles that monarchs and their representatives have played in Canada. The essays examine how Canadians have understood their ties to royalty and how the regal principle formed an important part of the national identity. Royal tours, vice-regal initiatives, representations of the sovereign’s power, and Canadian appeals to monarchical sentiments comprise the themes of these engaging essays, providing an up-to-date look at the historical and current personal influence of the Crown in Canada.
Art Nouveau
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Author : Charlotte Ashby
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Art Nouveau written by Charlotte Ashby and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Design categories.
Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is structured around key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It also explores the new ideas that inspired Art Nouveau: nature and the natural sciences, world arts and world religions, psychology and new visions for the modern self. Ashby explores the movement through 41 case studies of artists and designers, buildings, interiors, paintings, graphic arts, glass, ceramics and jewellery, drawn from a wide range of countries.
Women Literature And The Arts Of The Countryside In Early Twentieth Century England
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Author : Judith W. Page
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Women Literature And The Arts Of The Countryside In Early Twentieth Century England written by Judith W. Page and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England.