Women Artists

Name: Women Artists
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ISBN: 9780789399823

ISBN-10: 0789399822

ISBN-13: 9780789399823

Edition: 2008

Authors: Margaret Barlow

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This beautiful, oversized book features the work of women artists from the Renaissance to today. The full-page illustrations bring to light these artists' achievements, including historical and cultural notes to place their works in perspective. Margaret Barlow's informative and well-researched text highlights the lives and accomplishments of well-known and lesser known women whose art has been influential to the larger society, despite restricted access to formal training, and in the face of societal pressures to conform to prescribed virtues of "womanhood," overcame impediments to pursue successful careers in art through the agesJudith Leyster, Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Publication date: 9/9/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 11.50" wide x 15.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 6.798
Language: English

Introduction	p. 9
From Cloister to Court: Renaissance to Rococo Italy	p. 12
Domestic Preoccupations: Dutch and Flemish Painting in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 28
Virtue and Virtuosity: Academic Traditions in French Art of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries	p. 38
On the Face of It: The British Portrait Tradition	p. 54
Slices of Life: Picturing Lives and Landscape	p. 62
American Pioneers: Expressing a New Spirit	p. 74
Past Perfect: The Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic	p. 94
En Plein Air: The Impressionists and Their Circle	p. 104
Paris: The Turn of the Century	p. 118
Beyond Europe: The Commonwealth of Modernism	p. 130
Northern Lights: Painters of Scandinavia	p. 150
Independent Expressions: The Dilemma of Autonomy	p. 162
Collective Efforts: Art and War in Northern Europe	p. 174
Smashing the Past, Designing the Future: From Cubism to Constructivism and Beyond	p. 186
Complementary Realities: Early Abstraction on Two Continents	p. 196
Dada and Surrealism: Reports from the Unconscious	p. 208
Making Gestures: Abstract Expressionism	p. 224
Essence Matters: Abstraction and Nonobjective Painting	p. 236
An Art of One's Own: Latin American Painters and Sculptors	p. 248
Figuring It Out: Twentieth-Century Representation	p. 256
And Justice For All: Taking on the Culture Coast to Coast	p. 276
On and Off the Wall: Reinventing the Mainstream	p. 292
Moving Heaven and Earth: Sculpture Abstractions and Environments	p. 306
Just Folks: Traditional Art and Artists	p. 316
Index	p. 326
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