Women, art, and society /
By: Chadwick, Whitney.
Series: World of art.Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002Edition: 3rd ed.Description: 496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500203547; 9780500203545:.Subject(s): Women artists -- Biography -- History and criticism | Women artists -- History | Feminism and art | Women artists -- Social conditions | Women in art | Art and societyDDC classification: 704.042Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 704.042 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0052455 |
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.