Women, art, and society / Whitney Chadwick.

Challenges assumptions in seeing 'great' women artists, like Artemisia Gentileschi, as exceptions who 'transcended' their sex in producing major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected...

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Main Author: Chadwick, Whitney (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
Series:World of art.
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Table of Contents:
  • Art history and the woman artist
  • The Middle Ages
  • Renaissance Florence and the woman artist
  • The other Renaissance
  • Gender and domestic genre 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
  • The independents
  • In and out of the mainstream
  • A Postmodern postcript.