书名：Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 (Paperback)/ 如今你看到我们：1520-1920年英国的女性艺术家
定价：295.0
ISBN：9781849768818
作者：Tabitha Barber
版次：1
出版时间：2024-05

内容提要：

题 目：Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 / 如今你看到我们：1520-1920年英国的女性艺术家

作 者：Tabitha Barber

出 版：Tate ，2024

装 帧：平装，224页

尺 寸：21*26.5 cm

 

 

从都铎时代到第一次世界大战，这本平装展览书籍《现在你看到了我们：1520~1920年英国女性艺术家》记录了这些女性成为职业艺术家的历程。

 

从伊丽莎白一世宫廷的微型画家莱维娜·蒂尔林克，到150多年后首位当选皇家艺术学院院士的女性劳拉·奈特，女性一直在艺术界占有一席之地，她们拥有成功的商业生涯，并在公共展览上展出作品。

 

她们敢于打破社会对妻子、母亲和女儿仅限于私人家庭领域的期望，勇敢追求公共事业，绘制历史画、战斗场景和裸体画，而这些通常被视为男性的专属领域。通过研究玛丽·比尔、安吉莉卡·考夫曼、伊丽莎白·巴特勒夫人等众多人物，我们发现她们的职业生涯远非业余水彩画家的刻板印象，而是将艺术视为一种淑女的成就来追求。相反，在这本展览目录中，她们被展现为尽管被排除在学院培训和艺术机构成员资格之外，却仍在艺术世界中摸索前行的专业人士，她们决心克服面临的障碍，取得成功。

 

在1876年的《英国女性艺术家》一书中，艾伦·克里索恩·克莱顿写道，女性艺术家“在时间的沙滩上只留下淡淡的足迹”。通过考察女性画家的作品、展览评论家对她们作品的评价、女性自己对于她们在艺术界地位的看法，包括她们与争取妇女权利运动的联系，《英国女性艺术家》一书揭示了她们在艺术史上的真正遗产和地位。

 

From Tudor times to the First World War, this paperback exhibition book accompanying Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 charts these women’s journeys to becoming professional artists.

 

From Levina Teerlinc, a miniaturist at the court of Elizabeth I, to Laura Knight, the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Academy after a gap of more than 150 years, women have been a constant presence in the art world, conducting commercially successful careers and exhibiting in public exhibitions.

 

Against society’s expectations of wives, mothers and daughters, limited to the private domestic sphere, they dared to pursue public careers, and to paint history pieces, battle scenes and the nude, usually regarded as the preserve of men. An examination of figures such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth, Lady Butler and many more reveals careers very far from the stereotypical view of women as amateur watercolourists, pursuing art as a ladylike accomplishment. Instead, in this exhibition catalogue. they are revealed as professionals who navigated the art world despite being excluded from academy training and art institution membership, and who were determined to succeed despite the obstacles they faced.

 

In English Female Artists, 1876, Ellen Creathorne Clayton wrote that women artists had ‘left only but faintly impressed footprints on the sands of time’. By looking at what women painted, how their work was received by exhibition critics, what women said themselves about their status in the art world, including their links to campaigns for women’s rights, Women Artists in Britain shines a spotlight on their true legacy and place in art history.