Women, art, and society
Whitney Chadwick's 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 contribution to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been ne...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Frigeri, Flavia, contributor. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Sixth edition / |
| Imprint: | London : Thames & Hudson, [2020] |
| Series: | World of art.
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- Art history and the woman artist
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance ideal
- The other Renaissance
- Domestic genres and women painters 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
- Modernist representation : the female body
- Gender, race, and modernism after the second World War
- Feminist art in North America and Great Britain
- New directions : a partial overview
- Worlds together, worlds apart
- A place to grow : personal visions, global concerns
- The enduring legacy of feminism
- Epilogue.