Women, art, and society / Whitney Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chadwick, Whitney, author.

Series:

Thames and Hudson world of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Feminism and art.

Women in art.

Women artists--History.

Women artists.

Women artists--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages)

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Thames and Hudson Ltd 2021

Summary:

Whitney Chadwicks acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contribution to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwicks survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines 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. With a new preface and epilogue from an exciting new authority on the history of women artists, this revised edition continues the project of charting the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy in recent years, revealing how artists have responded to new strategies of feminism for the current moment.

Contents:

Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist Chapter 1: The Middle Ages Chapter 2: The Renaissance Ideal Chapter 3: The Other Renaissance Chapter 4: Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe Chapter 5: Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England Chapter 6: Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England Chapter 7: Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 8: Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art Chapter 9: Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman Chapter 10: Modernist Representation: The Female Body Chapter 11: Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War Chapter 12: Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain Chapter 13: New Directions: A Partial Overview Chapter 14: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Chapter 15: A Place to Grow: Personal Visions, Global Concerns Chapter 16: The Enduring Legacy of Feminism Epilogue List of Illustrations

Notes:

Previous edition: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780500775950

0500775958

9780500775967