{"id":40802287294,"date":"2025-02-06T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802287294"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:06:45","slug":"assoc-dean-bluemel-wins-lauder-publication-grant-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/assoc-dean-bluemel-wins-lauder-publication-grant-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Assoc. Dean Bluemel Wins Lauder Publication Grant from The Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kristin Bluemel, Ph.D., interim associate dean, McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray and Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/research-centers\/leonard-a-lauder-research-center\/publication-grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center on Modern Art<\/a>, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for her forthcoming book. &#8220;Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain.&#8221; Publication is scheduled for fall 2025 by the University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prestigious grant will help support costly reproductions of the book&#8217;s many black and white illustrations and color plates by its subjects, artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall, as well as reproductions of wood engravings by the man who inspired them, the legendary eighteenth-century artist and printer, Thomas Bewick. Raverat, Miller Parker, Leighton, and Hassall all cared about the whole process of book making and book reading. They emerge in &#8220;Enchanted Wood&#8221; as important literary characters fully engaged with their modern worlds, representing larger social and cultural movements to redraw the boundaries of women\u2019s living. With it&#8217;s beautiful illustrations, &#8220;Enchanted Wood&#8221; reveals how and why wood engraving facilitated this transformation in female living in rural and urban places, and why woman wood engravers who took up the materials and techniques used by Bewick and his male descendants were able to achieve professional stature, public affirmation, and personal independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40802287297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-1457x2048.jpg 1457w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-1320x1856.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Bluemel-Plate-1.jpg 2931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Agnes Miller Parker, <em>Herons<\/em>, from H. E. Bates <em>Down the River<\/em> (1937).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Bluemel, Ph.D., interim associate dean, McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray and Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities, has won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center on Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for her forthcoming book. &#8220;Enchanted Wood: Engraving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,417,912,322,423],"tags":[5080,5077,5082],"person":[881],"audience":[11,8,29],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802287294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-excellence","category-awards-publications-research","category-cec-news","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-grants-and-awards","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","person-kbluemel","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-media"],"squareimage":{"id":40802263008,"rendered":"<img width=\"683\" height=\"683\" style=\"object-position: 52.925% 38.125%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Interim Associate Dean Kristen Bluemel\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-280x280.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792.jpg","width":683,"height":683}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802287294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802287364,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287294\/revisions\/40802287364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802287294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802287294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802287294"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802287294"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802287294"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802287294"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802287294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}