Women, Art, and Society: (4th edition) (E) (World of Art) - Softcover

Whitney Chadwick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500203938 ISBN 13: 9780500203934

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This groundbreaking book 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 contributions 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 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.

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Review:

A highly successful work.

A highly successful work. "

About the Author:

Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Significant Others and Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, both published by Thames & Hudson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0500203938
• ISBN 13: 9780500203934
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 528