Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)
Price
$39.94
Format
Paperback
Pages
496
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Publication Date
3rd edition (April 1, 2002
ISBN-13
978-0500203545
Weight
10.6 ounces
Description
A richly academic, momentous volume of art history which traces the arduous path that women artists continue to forge. -- ForeWord Magazine , Fall 2002 An ideal source for students and scholars alike. -- Choice Chadwick opens up whole new ways of thinking about familiar images. -- Women's Art Journal Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. Her most recent publications include Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Significant Others , and Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks.
Features & Highlights
- This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, are exceptions who "transcended" their sex in achieving major works of art. In fact, many other women have produced paintings, sculptures, and crafts since the Middle Ages, and have been neglected. Whitney Chadwick provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: she reexamines 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. Since
- Women, Art, and Society
- was first published in 1990, globalization, rapidly shifting demographic and geographic realities, and an explosion of new technologies have transformed the ways we think about the world, and prompted yet more critical consideration of how gender, sexual difference, race, and culture intersect. In an additional chapter for this expanded edition, Chadwick reflects on the new globalism in the visual arts and brings the discussion up to date by focusing on the many biennials, triennials, and other international art shows that have emerged during the 1990s to provide an important forum for a whole range of women artists from around the world. 303 illustrations, 79 in color.
