Potters and Paintresses. Women designers in the pottery industry, 1870-1955
Details:
- Author(s) Buckley, Cheryl
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 184pp; illus
- Publisher Women's Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Design issues
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'Reconstructs the part that women played in the design of pottery shapes and decoration in the great studios of Minton, Doulton, Wedgwood and many more in the 19th and 20th centuries'. See also the writer's doctoral thesis 'Women Designers in the North Staffordshire Pottery Industry, 1914-1940', East Anglia, 1991Chapters include: 'Women, design history and the pottery industry'; 'The Potteries, design and women workers'; 'China painters and decorators'; 'The hand-painting revival and art potters'; 'Designers for industry'; 'Craft workshops and mass production'; 'Women pottery designers, femininity and feminism'