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The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for artistic practice as it has been for art historical understanding. Through a series of in-depth studies, contributors examine changes to the infrastructure of the art world that resulted from a powerful discourse of professionalization that emerged in the late- nineteenth century. While many women embraced this new model, others fell by the wayside, barred from professional status by virtue of their class, their ethnicity, or the very nature of the artworks they produced. The richly illustrated essays in this collection depict the changing nature of the professional paradigm as it was experienced by women painters, photographers, craftspeople, architects, curators, gallery directors, and art teachers. In so doing, they demonstrate the ongoing power of feminist art history to disrupt patterns of thought that have become naturalized and, accordingly, invisible. Going beyond the narratives of recovery or exclusion that the category of professionalism has traditionally encouraged, Rethinking Professionalism explores the very consequences of telling the history of women's art in Canada through that lens.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Rethinking Professionalism
• Subtitle: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970
• Author: Kristina Huneault, Janice Anderson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 472
• EAN: 9780773539662
• ISBN: 0773539662
• ID: 04919186
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Weight: 1882 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 1247 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. April 2012

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