Bøker av Beth Fowkes Tobin

With essays on a range of fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this collection contributes to the scholarly redefinition of women's relationship to creative activity, focusing on women as producers of cultural products and creators of social value.

A study of colonialism and art that examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, West Indies, and India, it investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices - and resisting and complicating them.

How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. Over the course of twenty years, she amassed the largest shell collection of her time. This study tells the story of the collection's formation and dispersal.