Pictorial embroidery in England : a critical history of needlepainting and Berlin Work / Rosika Desnoyers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 14, 2019).

List of Illustrations -- Introduction The Invention of Needlepoint Berlin Work and the Question of Domestic Craft Outline of the Book -- 1. Needlepainting in Great Britain Women Artists and Art Institutions in Eighteenth-Century England Mary Linwood and the Needlepainters Professionals and Amateurs -- 2. Imitation and Innovation in the Late Eighteenth Century Between Art and Industry Science and the Tasteful Person -- Copying and Luxury Goods -- 3. Towards an Industrial Aesthetic Proximity of Artistic and Scientific Invention Guidebooks and the Making of the Modern Amateur -- The Jacquard Loom and Its Curious Commemoration -- 4. The Writing of Pictorial Berlin Work -- Contemporary Embroidery Histories Nineteenth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Official Knowledge Twentieth-Century Accounts: Berlin Work as Submerged Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes Bibliography Index

"The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status in the 18th and 19th centuries. From enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life."-- Provided by publisher

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