Full Description
An accessible, informative yet compact reappraisal of the position and work of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the way their work has been perceived in the history of art - often in direct reference to gender - and re-examines the works themselves. A new chapter - with 30 new illustrations - brings the volume right up to date in light of the most recent developments in contemporary art. It considers the prevailing globalization in the visual arts, focusing in particular on the many major international exhibitions since 1990 that have become an important arena for women artists from around the world.
Contents
Preface; IntroductionAges; 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 19th 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
