Women Patrons and Collectors

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2012 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-3464-3 (ISBN)

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In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved.As the present volume shows, women—particularly aristocratic women—not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role.Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life. This third volume in the Collecting & Display series of conference proceedings challenges such perceptions through the detailed analysis of different types of collecting by women from the early modern period onwards; it thus seeks to give a voice to a group of important female collectors from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century whose importance for the history of collecting has not yet, or not sufficiently, been acknowledged.

Collecting & Display (100 BC to AD 1700) is the name of a working group founded by the three editors of this volume in 2004. The group has been running a research seminar at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London from 2005, in Florence from 2008 and has organised international summer conferences from 2006 onwards. The three editors teach at university programmes in the UK, France and Italy and are widely published on the subject of the history of collecting, the display of collections and the art market, including the first two volumes of the present series with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Collecting and Dynastic Ambition (2009) and Collecting and the Princely Apartment (2011). For more information, please visit www.collectinganddisplay.com.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.4.2012
Reihe/Serie	Collecting Histories
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4438-3464-5 / 1443834645
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-3464-3 / 9781443834643
Zustand	Neuware