Bohemians, Craftsmen and the New Woman

Australian women in the printing industry are mostly undocumented. To redress this imbalance, the colour ink supplements illustrated by Harry J Weston and Alexander Sass in the graphic arts journal Wimble's Reminder will be examined. The illustration employed to promote Wimble's ink record...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, John
Other Authors: Vukić, Fedja
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: UPI2M Books 2020
Online Access:https://www.upi2mbooks.hr/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81486
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Summary:Australian women in the printing industry are mostly undocumented. To redress this imbalance, the colour ink supplements illustrated by Harry J Weston and Alexander Sass in the graphic arts journal Wimble's Reminder will be examined. The illustration employed to promote Wimble's ink records the parallel change of printing technologies and the industries' gender roles. Bohemian, sexual, craft and muscular masculinities populated the printing trade. Weston's representations of masculinities juxtapose Sass's representations of the liberated, lively