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

Greer, Dr. Germaine

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9780436187995: The Obstacle Race: Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043618799X ISBN 13: 9780436187995

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1979

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical desc. : [7],373p,32p of plates : ill (some col) , facsims, ports(some col) ; 26cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Greer, Germaine, 1939-. Women painters - Biography. Painting - History. Western paintings - to 1978 - Critical studies. Women artists - to ca.1930 - feminist viewpoints

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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

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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.

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