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Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770
Hardcover
Series: Northern Lights
Art HistoryAmerican Art - GeneralGeneral Art
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ISBN13: 9781848226241
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: Feb 8 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 2.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.70 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women's choices of motifs can tell us about their lives and their relationships to nature.
Embroidering the Landscape situates these pastoral and georgic needleworks (c. 1740-1775) at the intersection of environmental and social histories, interpreting them through ecocritical and social lenses. Pappas' investigation draws out connections between women's depicted landscapes and environmental and cultural history at a time when nature itself was a charged arena for changes in agriculture, husbandry, gardening, and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history. Her insights change our understanding of the relationship between culture and the environment in this period and raise new questions about the unrecognized extent of women's engagement with nature and natural science.
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