| Description |
383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
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World of art |
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World of art.
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| Contents |
Art history and the woman artist -- The Middle Ages -- Renaissance Florence and the woman artist -- The other Renaissance -- Gender and domestic genre in northern Europe -- Amateurs and academics: a new ideology of femininity in France and England -- Sex, class, and power in Victorian England -- Toward Utopia: moral reform and American art in the nineteenth century -- Separate but unequal: woman's sphere and the new art -- Modernism, abstraction, and the new woman -- The independents -- In and out of the mainstream -- A Postmodern postcript |
| Summary |
Challenges assumptions in seeing 'great' women artists, like Artemisia Gentileschi, as exceptions who 'transcended' their sex in producing major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected and the role of art history in enabling access to these works, this critical survey provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her discussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality. For this extensively revised, expanded and newly illustrated edition, Chadwick brings her pioneering book right up to date in the light of new research, while two new chapters focus on the work of contemporary, postmodern artists whose work is consciously informed by feminism.--Book jacket |
| Analysis |
Visual arts Role of Women History |
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Visual arts Role of Women History |
| Notes |
"Special volume"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-377) and index |
| Subject |
Art and society -- History.
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Art and society.
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Art -- History.
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Feminism and art -- History.
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Feminism and art.
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Feminism and the arts.
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Feminism -- History.
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Women artists -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women artists -- History.
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Women in art -- History.
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Women in art.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
89050634 |
| ISBN |
0500202419 |
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9780500202418 |
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