The Obstacle Race: Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work - Hardcover

Greer, Germaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374224129 ISBN 13: 9780374224127

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982

Synopsis

Reviews the barriers and constraints that have traditionally prevented female painters from winning recognition as artists in their own right and have robbed the world of excellence

About this title

Review:

It is everything we might have wished: passionate yet lucid, clear yet complex, deeply researched yet not pedantic. It is a book that explains, better than any I have ever read, the psychological, economic and even aesthetic reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all our artistic establishments. Erica Jong

From the Back Cover:

If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leornardo or Titian? Certainly, many are acknowledged figures in the history of Western painting - Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kollwitz. Germaine Greer's brilliantly incisive and richly-illustrated study explains the obstacles women faced in the race for achievement as both external and surmountable, but also internal and insurmountable.

'It is everything we might have wished: passionate yet lucid, clear yet complex, deeply researched yet not pedantic. It is a book that explains, better than any I have ever read, the psychological, economic and even aesthetic reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all our artistic establishments.' Erica Jong

Germaine Greer is the author of The Female Eunuch, The Change and The Whole Woman. An academic and bestselling author, she is a highly respected cultural commentator and popular personality on television and radio.

The Obstacle Race was first published in 1979 and is reissued by popular demand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0374224129
• ISBN 13: 9780374224127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1