- Publisher: Thames & Hudson
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 304pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 239x162mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.8kg
- ISBN: 9780500021828
- Product code: 538658
Voyaging Out
British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties
Carolyn Trant New Hardback Illustrated
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Taking its title from Virginia Woolf’s novel The Voyage Out, this study follows the struggle for self-realization of women artists in Britain in the mid-20th century. Through the work of Laura Knight, Barbara Hepworth, Tirzah Garwood, Pauline Boty and others, it examines their response to the challenges of sex and class, and their search for creative space independent of the male-dominated art establishment.
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Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this journey through a fascinating period of social change, artist Carolyn Trant fills in some of the gaps in traditional art histories. Introducing the lives and works of a rich network of neglected women artists, Voyaging Out sets these alongside such renowned presences as Barbara Hepworth, Laura Knight and Winifred Nicholson. In an era of radical activism and great social and political change, women forged new relationships with art and its institutions. Such change was not without its challenges, and with acerbic wit Trant delves into the gendered make-up of the 'avant-garde', and the tyranny of artistic 'isms'.
Virginia Woolf's first novel The Voyage Out (1915) has her female heroine strive towards a realization of her sense of self, asking what being a woman might mean. In the decades after women won the vote in Britain, the fortunes of women artists were shaped by war, domesticity, continued oppressions and spirited resistance. Some succeeded in forging creative careers; others were thwarted by the odds stacked against them. Weaving devastating individual stories with playful critique, Voyaging Out reveals this hidden history.
Virginia Woolf's first novel The Voyage Out (1915) has her female heroine strive towards a realization of her sense of self, asking what being a woman might mean. In the decades after women won the vote in Britain, the fortunes of women artists were shaped by war, domesticity, continued oppressions and spirited resistance. Some succeeded in forging creative careers; others were thwarted by the odds stacked against them. Weaving devastating individual stories with playful critique, Voyaging Out reveals this hidden history.
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<p>Taking its title from Virginia Woolf’s novel <i>The Voyage Out</i>, this study follows the struggle for self-realization of women artists in Britain in the mid-20th century. Through the work of Laura Knight, Barbara Hepworth, Tirzah Garwood, Pauline Boty and others, it examines their response to the challenges of sex and class, and their search for creative space independent of the male-dominated art establishment.</p>
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