Women, art, and society /
Chadwick, Whitney.
Women, art, and society / - 3rd ed. - New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002. - 496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. - World of art .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-485) and index.
Introduction : 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, 1910-25 -- 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.
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. A new chapter brings the title right up-to-date.
0500203547 9780500203545: £11.95
Women artists--Biography--History and criticism.
Women artists--History.
Feminism and art.
Women artists--Social conditions.
Women in art.
Art and society.
704.042 / CHA
Women, art, and society / - 3rd ed. - New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002. - 496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. - World of art .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-485) and index.
Introduction : 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, 1910-25 -- 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.
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. A new chapter brings the title right up-to-date.
0500203547 9780500203545: £11.95
Women artists--Biography--History and criticism.
Women artists--History.
Feminism and art.
Women artists--Social conditions.
Women in art.
Art and society.
704.042 / CHA