The story of art without men / Katy Hessel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hessel, Katy, 1994- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

Art, Modern--History.

Art, Modern.

Women artists.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

458 pages, 53 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's neverbeen told before"-- Provided by publisher.

"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Paving the Way : c.1500-c.1900. Painting herself into the canon

Looking to a heroic past

From realism to spiritualism

What Made Art Modern : c.1870-c.1950. War, identity and the Paris avant-garde

The aftermath of the First World War

Modernism in the Americas

War and the rise of new methods and media

Postwar Women : c.1949-c.1970. The great era of experimentalism

Political change and new abstractions

The body

Weaving new traditions

Taking Ownership : 1970-2000. The era of feminism

The 1980s

The 1990s

Radical change in Britain

Still Writing : 2000-Present. Decolonising narratives and reworking traditions

Figuration in the twenty-first century

The 2020s.

Notes:

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Hutchinson Heinemann."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [468]-[504]) and index (pages [508]-[511]).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of

ISBN:

9780393881868

0393881865

OCLC:

1320808228