Women, Art, and Society
by Whitney Chadwick
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Examination of the work of women artists from the middle ages to postmodern art. Discussion of art history's approach and how patriarchal worldviews have formed most of the discourse about art created by women. Fresh approaches to the examination of art produced by women are enriched by feminist scholarship re-examinations of history and art. Color and black and white images.
History of women artists
Much needed perspective on art and gender...
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Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. She has lectured and published widely in the areas of surrealism, feminism, and contemporary art. She lives in San Francisco, California.
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- Women, Art, and Society
- Original publication date
- 1990
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- English, German, Polish, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- ASINs
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