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The female gaze : women artists making their world / edited by Robert Cozzolino with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Linda Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna C. Chave, Robert Cozzolino, Anna Havemann, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton, Michele Wallace.

Fine Arts Library N8354 .P46 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Contributor:
Cozzolino, Robert, 1970- editor.
Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Alter, Linda Lee--Art collections--Exhibitions.
Alter, Linda Lee.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts--Exhibitions.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Alter, Linda L. / Art collections / Exhibitions.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Exhibitions.
Women artists--Exhibitions.
Women artists.
Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
Art, Modern.
Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
Art--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.
Art.
Art museums.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Art / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia / Exhibitions.
Art, Modern / 20th century / Exhibitions.
Art, Modern / 21st century / Exhibitions.
Women artists / Exhibitions.
Local Subjects:
Alter, Linda L. / Art collections / Exhibitions.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Exhibitions.
Art / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia / Exhibitions.
Art, Modern / 20th century / Exhibitions.
Art, Modern / 21st century / Exhibitions.
Women artists / Exhibitions.
Genre:
Ausstellung -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- 2012.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
335 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2012.
Summary:
"In response to the poor representation of women in art galleries and museums, Philadelphia-based collector Linda Lee Alter decided in the 1980s to focus on art by women. The result, now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an extraordinarily diverse and powerful collection of nearly 500 objects by some of the most influential female artists of the past 50 years. Emphasizing contemporary living artists, but including major works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and others, Alter formed her collection with the intent of giving it to a public institution in order to make women artists more visible. This gorgeously illustrated volume celebrates the collection and its legacy by bringing together leading scholars of feminism, and modern and contemporary art to discuss how the artists in Alter's collection saw and transformed the world. Among the essays are discussions of the impact of feminism in Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay area; self-portraiture by women in the 1970s and 1980s; the legacy of Elizabeth Catlett on younger African American artists; collaborative practice among women; an interview with Linda Lee Alter; and an appreciation by artist Diane Burko." -- Publisher's description.
Contents:
Linda Lee Alter : at one with artists / Diane Burko
"I want the artist to be visible" : a conversation with Linda Lee Alter / Robert Cozzolino
Expanded horizon : female artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts during the course of the nineteenth century / Anna Havemann
Evenings : entertaining women in the circles of American modernism / Janine Mileaf
Imaging history, memory, and the raced and gendered body : the legacy of Elizabeth Catlett / Melanie Anne Herzog
A state of independence in Chicago / Robert Cozzolino
Feminism, identity, and self-representation : self-portraiture reimagined / Anna C. Chave
Sisters doin' it for themselves : collaborative practice in the Linda Lee Alter collection / Joanna Gardner-Huggett
Philadelphia focus and feminism in 1974 / Robert Cozzolino
A different approach : Joan Brown, Viola Frey, and the feminist art movement / Jodi Throckmorton
Marginalia / Glenn Adamson
We came to America by Faith Ringgold and the Linda Lee Alter collection of art by women at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Michele Wallace
Checklist of the Linda Lee Alter collection of art by women : biographies of the artists / Mey-Yen Moriuchi.
Notes:
Issued in connection with an exhibition held November 17, 2012-April 7, 2013, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
1555953891
9781555953898
OCLC:
810442369
Publisher Number:
99957422616

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