Women's contributions to visual culture, 1918-1939 / edited by Karen E. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Karen, 1972-

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--History--20th century.

Women artists.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub, [2008]

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction / Karen E. Brown

1. Women war artists of World War One / Katy Deepwell

2. 'Feminist art', 'female art', 'sexless art' in a modernist context : women's collective exhibitions in Greece, 1925-1937 / Chariklia-Glafki Gotsi

3. An unsettling aura of inscrutability' : imperialism, racial stereotyping, and the construction of the 'exotic' by British women sculptors during the 1920s and 1930s / Jonathan Black

4. 'Her hands never soft' : Concetta Scaravaglione at the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 / Anna Maria Carlevaris

5. Carola Giedion-Welcker : misrepresented collaborator of modernists / Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

6. Norah Guinness, W. B. Yeats, and the Illustrated book / Karen E. Brown

Negotiating 'new' venues in art : Doris and Anna Zinkeisen in modernising London / Britta C. Dwyer

8. Ethel Gabain, Evelyn Gibbs, and Evelyn Dunbar : three approaches to professional art practice in interwar Britain / Alice Strickland

9. The struggles of modernising Mexico : the mural of Aurora Reyes at the Centro Escolar Revolución / Terri Geis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780754664000

0754664007

OCLC:

191847068

Publisher Number:

99934637213