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Book Synopsis The Making of Mary Seton Watts by : Mary McMahon
Download or read book The Making of Mary Seton Watts written by Mary McMahon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Seton Watts and the Compton Pottery by : Hilary Calvert
Download or read book Mary Seton Watts and the Compton Pottery written by Hilary Calvert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mary Seton Watts, 1849-1938 by : Veronica Franklin Gould
Download or read book Mary Seton Watts, 1849-1938 written by Veronica Franklin Gould and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. '
Book Synopsis Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935 by : Janice Helland
Download or read book Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935 written by Janice Helland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies have focused on the denigration of decorative work by leading male artists, frequently dismissed as fashionably feminine. With few exceptions, women have been cast as consumers rather than producers. The first book to examine the decorative strategies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women artists, Women Artists and the Decorative Arts concentrates in particular on women artists who turned to fashion, interior design and artisanal production as ways of critically engaging various aspects of modernity. Women artists and designers played a vital role in developing a broad spectrum of modernist forms. In these essays new light is shed on the practice of such well-known women artists as May Morris, Clarice Cliff, Natacha Rambova, Eileen Gray and Florine Stettheimer, whose decorative practices are linked with a number of fascinating but lesser known figures such as Phoebe Traquair, Mary Watts, Gluck and Laura Nagy.
Book Synopsis Archibald Knox and Mary Seton Watts by : Veronica Franklin Gould
Download or read book Archibald Knox and Mary Seton Watts written by Veronica Franklin Gould and published by Damaris Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Seton Watts by : Camille Audette Sabourin
Download or read book Mary Seton Watts written by Camille Audette Sabourin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Utmost for the Highest by : Julie E. Rahrig
Download or read book The Utmost for the Highest written by Julie E. Rahrig and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by : Sally Barnden
Download or read book Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance written by Sally Barnden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.
Book Synopsis The Works of G.F. Watts, R.A. by : Marion Harry Spielmann
Download or read book The Works of G.F. Watts, R.A. written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of Mary Watts 1887-1904 by : Mary S. Watts
Download or read book The Diary of Mary Watts 1887-1904 written by Mary S. Watts and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never previously published, due to the tiny, almost illegible handwriting, the diary volumes have now been painstakingly transcribed and edited by Desna Greenhow, who has extracted the most illuminating passages. Including detailed annotations, an introductory essay and short commentaries at the start of each year represented, this book chronicles life in the artistic, literary and political circles of the time, while also providing invaluable insights into Mary's own considerable achievements--most notably her management of the building and decorating of her unique Watts Cemetery Chapel."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Suffragist Artists in Partnership by : Rose Lucy Ella Rose
Download or read book Suffragist Artists in Partnership written by Rose Lucy Ella Rose and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans - Victorian artists, writers and suffragists This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century. The author traces their relationship to early and more recent feminism, reclaiming them as influential early feminists and reading their works from twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. By focusing on neglected female figures in creative partnerships, the book challenges longstanding perceptions of them as the subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists and of their marriages as representatives of the traditional gender binary. This is also the first academic critical study of Mary Watts's recently published diaries, Evelyn De Morgan's unpublished writings and other previously unexplored archival material by the Wattses and the De Morgans. Key Features:Reveals the ways in which the couples promoted progressive socio-political ideasDraws on extensive archival research and analyses unpublished writings, including diaries and poemsFocuses on neglected female figures in creative partnerships to challenge longstanding perceptions of them as the submissive or subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists, and of their marriages as representatives of the traditional gender binaryShows how male and female writers and artists engaged with mid-to-late Victorian feminism together and individually, reclaiming them as influential early feminists
Book Synopsis British Women Artists by : Sara Gray
Download or read book British Women Artists written by Sara Gray and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination. This volume is the largest of its kind to document the lives and careers of some British women artists and decorative artists, published in Britain to date, and helps to shed new light on a still-neglected area of British art and design history. It includes entries for well-known artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Mary Lowndes, and Alice Woodward, alongside influential but forgotten women such as Mary Symonds, Amy Singer, and Catherine Donaldson. Researched and written by Dr. Sara Gray over a period of eight years, this book is her third to be published. She completed a B.A. Hons Degree in 1992 at Bolton University, followed by a Ph.D. in 2002 awarded by Manchester University. She has a particular interest in the work of British women artists and in regional arts and crafts.
Book Synopsis The Women Who Inspired London Art by : Lucy Merello Peterson
Download or read book The Women Who Inspired London Art written by Lucy Merello Peterson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of women caught up in thetumultuous art scene of the early twentiethcentury, some famous and others lost totime.By 1910 the patina of the belle poquewas wearing thin in London. Artists wereon the hunt for modern women who couldhold them in thrall. A chance encounter onthe street could turn an artless child intoan artists model, and a model into a muse.Most were accidental beauties, plucked fromobscurity to pose in the great art schoolsand studios. Many returned home to livesthat were desperately challenging almostall were anonymous.Meet them now. Sit with them in theCaf Royal amid the wives and mistressesof Londons most provocative artists. Peekbehind the brushstrokes and chisel cuts atwomen whose identities are some of arthistorys most enduring secrets. Drawing ona rich mlange of historical and anecdotalrecords and a primary source, this isstorytelling that sweeps up the reader inthe cultural tides that raced across Londonin the Edwardian, Great War and interwarperiods.A highlight of the book is a reveal of theAvico siblings, a family of models whosefaces can be found in paint and bronze andstone today. Their lives and contributionshave been cloaked in a century of silence.Now, illuminated by family photos and oralhistories from the daughter of one of themodels, the Avico story is finally told.
Book Synopsis The Mexican Heartland by : John Tutino
Download or read book The Mexican Heartland written by John Tutino and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world. Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico's heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain's empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. They joined in insurgencies that brought the collapse of silver and other key global trades after 1810 as Mexico became a nation, then struggled to keep land and self-rule in the face of liberal national projects. They drove Zapata's 1910 revolution a rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. Although the revolt faced defeat, adamant communities forced a land reform that put them at the center of Mexico's experiment in national capitalism after 1920. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metropolis spreading across the land. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new lives--dependent, often desperate, yet still pressing their needs in a globalizing world. --
Book Synopsis Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England by : Judith W. Page
Download or read book Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England written by Judith W. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England.
Download or read book An Artist's Village written by Mark Bills and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis G.F. Watts by : Veronica Franklin Gould
Download or read book G.F. Watts written by Veronica Franklin Gould and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist. Drawing on Watts’s abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist’s career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts’s wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world.