Women, art, and society / Whitney Chadwick.
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TextSeries: World of art | World of artPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 1996.Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and expandedDescription: 448p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780500202937 (pbk.) :
- 0500202931
- 704.042 CHA
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 704.042 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 106767 |
Previous ed.: 1990.
Introduction: Art history and the woman artist -- One -- The middle ages -- Two -- The Renaissance ideal -- Three -- The other Renaissance -- Four -- Domestic genres and women painters in northern Europe -- Five -- A amateurs and academics: a new ideology of femininity in France and England -- Six -- Sex, Class and Power in Victorian England -- Seven -- Towards Utopia: moral reform and American art in the nineteenth century -- Eight -- Separate but unequal: woman's sphere and the new at -- Nine -- Modernism, Abstraction, and the new woman 1910 - 25 -- Ten -- modernist representation: the female body -- Eleven -- Gender, Race and Modernism after the second world war -- Twelve -- Feminist art in the north America and Great Britain -- Thirteen -- New directions: a partial overview -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looking at women artists from the Middle Ages to the present, this book examines the way their work has been perceived in the history of Western art and re-examines the works themselves.