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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Women painting and sculpting professionally in nineteenth-century Britain directly challenged assumptions not only about the nature and status of art but also about women’s economic relationship with society with culture and with men. Yet the debate generated by these women has received little exposure in accounts of the Victorian period. In this richly illustrated meticulously documented and wholly absorbing book Pamela Gerrish Nunn examines the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists their struggle for proper training for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male- dominated art world. And in so doing she brings to our attention works of art (many of them reproduced in this book) which have not been seen in public for nearly a century. Victorian Women Artists in reclaiming them and their creators for the tradition performs a service for contemporary artists for scholarship and for all who care about art. (SP)