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This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.
List of contents
Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women's Transcultural Practices
Arlene Leis
Part 1: Points of Transcultural Exchange
1. Européenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in China’s Long Eighteenth Century
Chih-En Chen
2. Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Knitting Instructor
Lisa Hellman
3. Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O’Tama Kiyohara Ragusa
Maria Antonietta Spadaro
4. Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico
Martha Sandoval-Villegas and Laura Garcia-Vedrenne
Part 2: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories
5. The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe
Glynis Ridley
6. Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block’s Self-Representation as Flora Batava
Catherine Powell-Warren
7. A Memsahib’s ‘Natural World’: Lady Mary Impey’s Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings
Apurba Chatterjee
8. Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain
Martha Sandoval-Villegas
9. Colonial Pantomime: Queen Marie I of Portugal’s Human Cabinet of Curiosities
Agnieszka Anna Ficek
Part 3: Settlers, Immigrants and New Frontiers
10. Settler Botanists, Nature’s Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Wild Flowers
Cynthia Sugars
11. Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation
Nancy Owen Lewis
12. The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau
Gwendolyn Collaço
13. Las Bexareñas and their Wills: Women’s Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar
Amy M. Porter
Part 4: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation
14. 'He Surely Existed': Women of the Early Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter
Brandt Zipp
15. Adjacency in the Collection
Toby Upson
16. Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land
Louise Hamby
17. From Women’s Hands: Learning from Métis Women’s Collections
Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews
About the author
Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.
Summary
This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.
