Women writers on art and perceptions of the female connoisseur, 1780-1860

It has been suggested that women were broadly excluded from the art world of the eighteenth century because of prevailing views on female taste, which considered them incapable of appreciating high art. Satirical representations of women spectators suggest a vulgar mode of art-viewing, associated wi...

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Main Author: Palmer, Caroline Elizabeth
Published: Oxford Brookes University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495945