Pappas Andrea - Embroidering The Landscape Women Art And The Environment In British North America 1740 - 1770 - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Embroidering The Landscape Women Art And The Environment In British North America 1740 - 1770
Author(s): Pappas Andrea
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781848226241
Pages: 192 Pages, 40 Illustrations, Color; 30 Illustrations, Black And White; 40 Illustrations, Color; 30 I
Publication Date: 2/8/2024
Series: Northern Lights
Category: Textile Artworks