Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics - Softcover

Meskimmon, Marsha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415242789 ISBN 13: 9780415242783

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Marsha Meskimmon mobilises contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art. She examines work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, including Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Shirin Neshat and Maya Lin, emphasising the diversity of women's art and the importance of differences between women.

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Synopsis:

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Meskimmon examines work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, including Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Shirin Neshat and Maya Lin, emphasising the diversity of women's art and the importance of differences between women.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415242789
• ISBN 13: 9780415242783
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240