Gender and self-fashioning at the intersection of art and science

• Verfasst von: Powell-Warren, Catherine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Gender and self-fashioning at the intersection of art and science
• Titelzusatz: Agnes Block, botany, and networks in the Dutch seventeenth century
• Verf.angabe: Catherine Powell-Warren
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 302 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in early modernity in the Netherlands
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-94-6372-549-1
• Schlagwörter: (p)Block, Agnes / (s)Sammlung / (g)Niederlande / (s)Botanik / (s)Pflanzenbuch / (s)Illustration / (z)Geschichte 1600-1700
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Powell-Warren, Catherine: Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (302 p.)
• Sach-SW: Art néerlandais - 17e siècle - Collectionneurs et collections
• Sach-SW: History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
• Sach-SW: Individual artists, art monographs
• Sach-SW: ART / History / Renaissance
• Sach-SW: ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
• Sach-SW: ART / Women Artists
• Sach-SW: History of art
• Sach-SW: Individual artists, art monographs
• Sach-SW: Botanical art
• K10plus-PPN: 1878495941

Abstract

"At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member of an influential network in her lifetime, today she remains a largely obscure figure. The socioeconomic and political barriers faced by early modern women, together with a male-dominated tradition in art history, have meant that too few stories of women's roles in the creation, production, and consumption of art have reached us. This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women. Examining Block's achievements, relationships, and artworks reveals a woman who was independent, knowledgeable, self-aware, and not above self-promotion. Though her gender brought few opportunities and many barriers, Agnes Block succeeded in fashioning herself as Flora Batava, a liefhebber at the intersection of art and science."-- hinterer Einbanddeckel