Word: craftworker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could call their own. Only two art activities were left to them. Well brought-up girls could do small watercolors, which were considered signs of "accomplishment," like a precarious tinkling on the pianoforte. Poorer girls, on the other hand, could make craft objects like pots or quilts. But such craftwork was also by reigning definition not high art. Since women's talent had been deprived of a social context in which it could make art, there was no problem in branding it as minor by nature...