| Description |
496 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm |
| Series |
World of art |
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World of art.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist -- 1. The Middle Ages -- 2. The Renaissance Ideal -- 3. The Other Renaissance -- 4. Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe -- 5. Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England -- 6. Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England -- 7. Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art -- 9. Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25 -- 10. Modernist Representation: The Female Body -- 11. Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War -- 12. Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain -- 13. New Directions: A Partial Overview -- 14. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart |
| Summary |
"This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to 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." |
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"This expanded edition is brought up to date in the light of the most recent developments in contemporary art. A new chapter considers globalization in the visual arts and the complex issues it raises, focusing on the many major international exhibitions since 1990 that have become an important arena for women artists from around the world."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-485) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Feminism and art -- History.
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Feminism and art.
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Feminism in art.
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Women artists -- Biography.
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Women artists -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women artists -- History.
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Women artists -- Social conditions.
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Women artists.
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Women in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001092911 |
| ISBN |
0500203547 |
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