TY - CHAP
T1 - Remembering what we have tried to forget
T2 - Writing the Lives, and Collecting the Works, of Early Modern Women Artists
AU - Perry, Lara
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - Works by women artists have been of increased interest in the last fifty years, but one of the challenges remains locating and authenticating examples of women's artistic practice. Museum collections, often initiated in the nineteenth century, tended to rely on forms of evidence and collecting practices that diminished the likelihood of women's artworks being collected. The chapter chaptures the interplay of art historical writing and museum collecting practices to trace the ways in which nineteenth-century views of women's artistic practice worked against the recognition of women's earlier contributions to creative culture and left a legacy of omission that is proving challenging to reverse.
AB - Works by women artists have been of increased interest in the last fifty years, but one of the challenges remains locating and authenticating examples of women's artistic practice. Museum collections, often initiated in the nineteenth century, tended to rely on forms of evidence and collecting practices that diminished the likelihood of women's artworks being collected. The chapter chaptures the interplay of art historical writing and museum collecting practices to trace the ways in which nineteenth-century views of women's artistic practice worked against the recognition of women's earlier contributions to creative culture and left a legacy of omission that is proving challenging to reverse.
UR - https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496231796/
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781496231796
T3 - Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
SP - 59
EP - 82
BT - Recovering Women's Past
A2 - Genieys-Kirk, Severine
PB - University of Nebraska Press
ER -