Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781350229396 |
| ISBN10: | 1350229393 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 184 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 290 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 19 color and 41 bw illus |
| 224 |
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Service industry
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Patchwork
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Pictorial Embroidery in England
A Critical History of Needlepainting and Berlin Work
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Date of Publication: 25 February 2021
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status in the 18th and 19th centuries.
From Enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life.
From Enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Invention of Needlepoint
Berlin Work and the Question of Domestic Craft
Outline of the Book
1. Needlepainting in Great Britain
Women Artists and Art Institutions in Eighteenth-Century England
Mary Linwood and the Needlepainters
Professionals and Amateurs
2. Imitation and Innovation in the Late Eighteenth Century
Between Art and Industry
Science and the Tasteful Person
Copying and Luxury Goods
3. Towards an Industrial Aesthetic
Proximity of Artistic and Scientific Invention
Guidebooks and the Making of the Modern Amateur
The Jacquard Loom and Its Curious Commemoration
4. The Writing of Pictorial Berlin Work
Contemporary Embroidery Histories
Nineteenth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Official Knowledge
Twentieth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Submerged Knowledge
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
The Invention of Needlepoint
Berlin Work and the Question of Domestic Craft
Outline of the Book
1. Needlepainting in Great Britain
Women Artists and Art Institutions in Eighteenth-Century England
Mary Linwood and the Needlepainters
Professionals and Amateurs
2. Imitation and Innovation in the Late Eighteenth Century
Between Art and Industry
Science and the Tasteful Person
Copying and Luxury Goods
3. Towards an Industrial Aesthetic
Proximity of Artistic and Scientific Invention
Guidebooks and the Making of the Modern Amateur
The Jacquard Loom and Its Curious Commemoration
4. The Writing of Pictorial Berlin Work
Contemporary Embroidery Histories
Nineteenth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Official Knowledge
Twentieth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Submerged Knowledge
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
