Book ID: CBB793486450

Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2020)

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Arlene Leis (Author)
Kacie L. Wills (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 245
Language: English

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.

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Authors & Contributors
Margócsy, Dániel
Mark D. Tomasko
Samuel Shaw
Troelenberg, Eva-Maria
Gahtan, Maia
Florence Fearrington
Concepts
Collectors and collecting
Collections
Curiosities and wonders
Science and culture
Science and art
Museums
Time Periods
18th century
Early modern
17th century
19th century
Modern
20th century, early
Places
Europe
Netherlands
England
London (England)
France
Great Britain
Institutions
École Royale des Mines
McGill University (Canada)
Museum of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Habsburg, House of
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