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This biography tells the story of these four women′s lives, fromtheir shared student days at the Slade through the subsequentdevelopment of their careers. It has often been assumed thatmarriage and immersion in domestic responsibilities terminated thepromising careers of these women. But Thomas shows that, despitethese complications, they continued in serious artistic endeavorthroughout their lives, producing work of a highly original andindividual character. In striving to reconcile the demands offamily and domestic ties with their desire to continue painting,the Slade women struggled with a dilemma which continues to facemany women in the late twentieth century.
Well illustrated and engagingly written, Portraits ofWomen reconstructs a neglected chapter in the development oftwentieth–century art.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. First Edition thus, as good as new. Portraits of Women: Gwen John and Her Forgotten Contemporaries by Alison M. Thomas. Published by Blackwell Pub in 1995. Hardcover ISBN:9780745606613. Collectible item in excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 0745606613