Embroidering the Landscape
Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770
Seiten
2023
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-624-1 (ISBN)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-624-1 (ISBN)
Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women’s choices of motifs can tell us about their lives and their relationships to nature.
Embroidering the Landscape situates these pastoral and georgic needleworks (c. 1740-1775) at the intersection of environmental and social histories, interpreting them through ecocritical and social lenses. Pappas’ investigation draws out connections between women’s depicted landscapes and environmental and cultural history at a time when nature itself was a charged arena for changes in agriculture, husbandry, gardening, and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history. Her insights change our understanding of the relationship between culture and the environment in this period and raise new questions about the unrecognized extent of women’s engagement with nature and natural science.
Embroidering the Landscape situates these pastoral and georgic needleworks (c. 1740-1775) at the intersection of environmental and social histories, interpreting them through ecocritical and social lenses. Pappas’ investigation draws out connections between women’s depicted landscapes and environmental and cultural history at a time when nature itself was a charged arena for changes in agriculture, husbandry, gardening, and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history. Her insights change our understanding of the relationship between culture and the environment in this period and raise new questions about the unrecognized extent of women’s engagement with nature and natural science.
Andrea Pappas is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University. She has published on topics ranging from the Renaissance to the present and is particularly interested in the work of people on the margins or in overlooked artifacts.
Introduction: Surveying the Field; 1 The Eye of the Needle; 2 Roots and Terroir; 3 Greener Pastures; 4 Flock, Fish and Fowl; 5 Women’s Estate; 6 Women and ‘Experiential Botany’; Conclusion: Women’s Harvest; Notes; Bibliography; Image credits; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Northern Lights |
| Zusatzinfo | 40 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84822-624-1 / 1848226241 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84822-624-1 / 9781848226241 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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