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If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe KOllwitz--and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement.
Contents
Part 1 The obstacleshumiliation; dimension; primitivism; the disappearing oeuvre. Part 2 How they ran: the cloister; the Renaissance; the magnificent exception; the Bolognese phenomenon; still life and flower painting; the portraitists; the amateurs; the age of academies.