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 neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her discussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality. With a new preface and epilogue from an exciting new authority on the history of women artists, this revised edition continues the project of charting the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy in recent years, revealing how artists have responded to new strategies of feminism for the current moment.
Notes
Previous edition: 2012.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Art History and the Woman Artist
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance Ideal Chapter
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.
ISBN
9780500204566 (paperback)
050020456X (paperback)
OCLC
1180159874
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