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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 296 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women is a celebration of the contributions of Native American women to America's cultural heritage.
Focusing on both traditional and modern art and offering an historical and stylistic overview, Broder's book includes the work of Native American women belonging to more than forty tribes across the United States and Canada. Earth Songs, Moon Dreams features historically important works by pioneer...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female artists--from the 11th century to today--from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Challenges assumptions in seeing 'great' women artists, like Artemisia Gentileschi, as exceptions who 'transcended' their sex in producing major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected and the role of art history in enabling access to these works, this critical survey provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works...
Publisher
Taschen
Language
English
Description
It's a women's world (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Many of the century's greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this tome, each artist represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations, some color ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts - including textiles and ceramics - have been separated from the 'high arts' of painting and sculpture and deemed to be more suitable for women. Artists began to reclaim and redefine these materials and methods, energising them with expressions of identity and imagination. Women's Work tells the story of this radical change, highlighting some of the modern and contemporary artists who dared...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Maria Sibylla Merian.
An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, Merian was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty, she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis-an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman.
When she returned, she...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Princeton University historian describes her post-retirement decision to study art, a venture that compelled her to find relevance in the undervalued masters she loves, the obstacles faced by women artists, and the challenges of balancing art and life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 191 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover her art invites young art lovers and artists to learn about painting through the lives and masterpieces of 24 women from the 16th to the 20th century." -- Page [4] of cover
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Unleash your inner artist with this beautiful guided sketchbook, full of brand new creative projects and illuminating bios of female artists, from the author of A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women)."--Amazon.com
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