Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880-1920 - Hardcover

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9780963698506: Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880-1920

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963698508 ISBN 13: 9780963698506

Publisher: Canongate Books, 1993

Many people will be familiar with the work of the "Glasgow Boys", a group of painters considered in the late-19th century as revolutionary. However, little has been written about the "Girls" who were their contemporaries. Painters, such as Bessie MacNicol and Norah Neilson Gray, and designers such as Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Jessie M. King, influenced the development of the Glasgow style and went on to achieve international recognition, causing reverberations in central Europe and the USA which contributed to the development of the modern movement in art and design. This book brings together the varied research of 18 scholars in one volume. Autobiographical accounts of each artist are complemented by chapters on the social history of the era and the decorative arts movement.

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Review:

"Glasgow Girls is likely to remain the last word on Glaswegian Art Nouveau for many years to come - the standard reference book on Glaswegian women artists of the period," (The Sunday Times)

""The Book is a substantial, beautifully illustrated and fascinating document which does justice to its subject and will, one hopes, make it impossible for future curators and historians to ignore the obvious"" (The Scotsman)

"The wealth of work shown here is remarkable" (The Artist)

"...A brilliant book...which brings together for the first time original research by twenty scholars from Britain and North America" (Arts Review)

Book Description:

This is an essential art book, which looks at 'The Glasgow Style' from a female perspective

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