Neo-Victorianism, Feminism, and Lace
Amy Atkin’s Place at the Dinner Table
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15397198 |
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| Authors | Carol Quarini (0000-0002-2236-2278, Google (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-453 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TEXTILE (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-9756 • E-ISSN: 1751-8350 |
| Publisher | Berg Publishers (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14759756.2021.1933346 |
| OpenAlex | W3180404465 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This practice-based, interdisciplinary research focuses on the life and work of Amy Atkin, who claimed to be the first female Nottingham machine-lace designer. This study contextualizes her work within the framework of other early female British art students. Constrained by domesticity, like many other middle-class women in the early twentieth century, she had to relinquish paid work on marriage. The waste of talent resulting from this requirement inspired a practice response, based on table mats, informed by Amy Atkin’s lace designs, Catherine Bertola’s 2008 exhibition Prickings, and Judy Chicago’s iconic second-wave feminist work The Dinner Party (1979). This use of domestic textiles to critique gender politics and thus to subvert the quotidian is discussed and the theory of neo-Victorianism is used to consider works by textile artists who use the life of Victorian women as inspiration for practice that critiques feminism through the lens of the twenty-first century. This research combines social history, feminism, neo-Victorianism, and subversive stitching to consider the continuing constraints of domesticity on women’s lives both in the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Clothing · Exhibition · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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