Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Bridget Elliott and Janice Helland; Patterns of life: The art and design of Phoebe Anna Traquair and Mary Seton Watts, Elizabeth Cumming; May Morris: ubiquitous, invisible arts and craftswoman, Jan Marsh; The decorated object: gender, modernism and the design of industrial ceramics in Britain in the 1930s, Cheryl Buckley; Owning femininity: Thea Proctor and the Australian avant-garde, Pamela Gerrish Nunn; The performative art of court dress, Janice Helland; 'She would not cook the spaghetti...': domestic and decorative femininity and the film designs of Natacha Rambova, Jennifer Cottrill; Laura Nagy: Magyár Muse, Sandra Alfoldy; Engendering the spaces of modernity: The Women's Exhibition, Amsterdam 1913, Jane Beckett; Housing the work: women artists, modernism and the maison d'artiste: Eileen Gray, Romaine Brooks and Gluck, Bridget Elliott; Crystal flowers, pink candy hearts, and tinsel creation: The subversive femininity of Florine Stettheimer, Barbara J. Bloemink; Index.

About the Author

Janice Helland, edited by Bridget Elliott

Reviews

'... a theoretically sound overview of the gendering of decoration... a timely addition to scholarship in the area of decorative arts... a valuable reference source for those interested in Modernism across the fields of architecture, design and fine arts...' Ailsa Boyd, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History '... a stimulating approach to a study of women's role, and their achievements, in the decorative arts... It is a pleasure to see such a refeshing and well-researched study, encompassing such a range of designers and makers and variety of art forms.' The Journal of William Morris Studies