Suffrage And The Arts Av Miranda (central Saint Martins University Of The Arts London Uk) Garrett, Zoe Thomas

<i>Suffrage and the Arts</i> re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men¿from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of ¿artistic¿ products¿played in the suffrage campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were foot soldiers who helped sustain the momentum of the movement and as designers, makers and sellers they spread the message of the campaign to new local, national and international audiences, mediating how suffrage activism was understood by society at large. This edited collection offers a range of new perspectives and readings of the outpouring of creative responses to the campaign.Contributors, who include historians, art historians, curators, museum professionals and suffrage experts, call upon the historiographical developments of the last thirty years, alongside new archival discoveries, to showcase the vibrancy of ongoing research in this area. Throughout, chapters investigate the wider socio-cultural backdrop to

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