Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to… (original 1976; edition 1976)

In myths about the invention of art, the first artist is sometimes named as Kora, the daughter of the potter Dibutade, a young maiden who was moved to sketch the shadow of her lover on the wall before he went off to war . . . This myth - and many others about women artists - our book wishes to reconsider.

They are painters of a new age, honoring through their hard work, the long struggle carried on by their sister artists before them.