Local/global
Subtitle: women artists in the nineteenth century
By: edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland.
Contributors: Cherry, Deborah.; Helland, Janice.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot [England]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780754631972
Subjects: Women artists -- Biography -- History and criticism; Women artists -- History -- 19th century; Feminist art criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Local places/global spaces: new narratives of women's art in the nineteenth century / Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; title: 'Same but different': women artists in colonial Australia / Joan Kerr; title: In her majesty's service: women painters in China at the court of the Empress Dowager Cixi / Ka Bo Tsang; title: Women artists in India: practice and patronage / Gayatri Sinha; title: Harem portraiture: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Egyptian princess Nazli Hanim / Mary Roberts; title: Louise Abbéma's Lunch and Alfred Steven's Studio: theatricality, feminine subjectivity and space around Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1877-1888 / Griselda Pollock; title: Women patron-builders in Britain: identity, difference and memory in spatial and material culture / Lynne Walker; title: The Irish artist: crossing the rubicon / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch and Julie Anne Stevens; title: Nuns, ladies and the 'Queen of the Hurons': souvenir art and the negotiation of North American identities / Ruth B. Phillips; title: Placing Frances Anne Hopkins: a British-born artist in colonial Canada / Kristina Huneault; title: Chronicles in cloth: quilt-making and female artistry in nineteenth-century America / Janet Catherine Berlo; title: Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra: white marble, black skin and the regulation of race in American neoclassical sculpture / Charmaine Nelson; title: Modernity and tradition: strategies of representation in Mexico / Stacie G. Widdifield.