Pictorial Embroidery in England: A Critical History of Needlepainting and Berlin Work

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Dr Rosika Desnoyers

Pictorial Embroidery in England

A Critical History of Needlepainting and Berlin Work

Dr Rosika Desnoyers

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English

Bloomsbury Visual Arts
21 February 2019

Textile artworks; Textile design & theory; Textile industries; Needlework & fabric crafts

The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status in the 18th and 19th centuries.

From enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notions of cultural and scientific progress. However, with the advent of the Arts and Crafts movement and modernist aesthetics, Berlin Work was gradually demoted to a craft hobby. Delving into the social, cultural and economic context of English pictorial embroidery, Pictorial Embroidery in England recovers Berlin Work as an art form, and demonstrates how this overlooked practice was once at the centre of cultural life.

By: Dr Rosika Desnoyers
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781350071759
ISBN 10: 1350071757
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 21 February 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosika Desnoyers is an artist and holder of a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Reviews for Pictorial Embroidery in England: A Critical History of Needlepainting and Berlin Work

Brilliantly situating embroidery in the paradoxical age of industry, Desnoyers encourages us to question assumptions about amateur practices ... A necessary read for anyone concerned with the roles of gender, capitalism and domesticity in the emergence of modern disciplines. -- T'ai Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada