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The art of reflection : women artists' self-portraiture in the twentieth century / Marsha Meskimmon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meskimmon, Marsha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women artists--Psychology.
- Women artists.
- Self-perception in women.
- Self-portraits.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- This is the first book of its kind to examine a wide variety of women's self-portraiture (including performance and body art), thereby reclaiming important works that have been marginalized by a cultural fixation with male self-portraiture. In lucid prose, gratefully unfettered by jargon and rhetoric, Meskimmon moves us to the ineluctable conclusion that an examination of art and art criticism is less than half-precise when it is only half-gendered, and that our present notions of female subjects in art must be significantly reformulated.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231106866
- 0231106874
- OCLC:
- 34410517
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