A Woman's Touch: Women In Design From 1860 To The Present Day
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From the Arts and Crafts movement to the bold modernism of the twentieth century, A Woman's Touch chronicles the remarkable — and long-overlooked — contributions of women to the world of design across more than a century. Isabelle Anscombe presents a sweeping survey of female designers, decorators, architects, and craftswomen who shaped the visual culture of their eras, profiling pioneers who worked in textiles, furniture, ceramics, graphics, and interior design from 1860 through to the contemporary age. The book argues compellingly that women were not peripheral figures in design history but central, innovative forces whose work was systematically marginalised by a male-dominated establishment. Anscombe's prose is authoritative yet accessible, weaving together biography, social history, and aesthetic criticism to illustrate how gender, class, and creative ambition collided and coexisted across generations. A Woman's Touch sits at a vital intersection of feminist scholarship and design history, recovering the legacies of both celebrated names and forgotten talents with equal rigour and admiration. For anyone with a passion for the decorative arts or the history of women's intellectual and creative labour, this landmark volume poses a provocative question: how different might our understanding of modern design be if women had always received the recognition they deserved?
Author: Isabelle Anscombe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Virago
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From the Arts and Crafts movement to the bold modernism of the twentieth century, A Woman's Touch chronicles the remarkable — and long-overlooked — contributions of women to the world of design across more than a century. Isabelle Anscombe presents a sweeping survey of female designers, decorators, architects, and craftswomen who shaped the visual culture of their eras, profiling pioneers who worked in textiles, furniture, ceramics, graphics, and interior design from 1860 through to the contemporary age. The book argues compellingly that women were not peripheral figures in design history but central, innovative forces whose work was systematically marginalised by a male-dominated establishment. Anscombe's prose is authoritative yet accessible, weaving together biography, social history, and aesthetic criticism to illustrate how gender, class, and creative ambition collided and coexisted across generations. A Woman's Touch sits at a vital intersection of feminist scholarship and design history, recovering the legacies of both celebrated names and forgotten talents with equal rigour and admiration. For anyone with a passion for the decorative arts or the history of women's intellectual and creative labour, this landmark volume poses a provocative question: how different might our understanding of modern design be if women had always received the recognition they deserved?