Women, Art, and Society

The definitive work on the subject, mapping a complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today


This acclaimed study 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 have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick’s survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. This revised edition features a new final chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s. It is brought up to date with discussions of some of the most significant women artists to have emerged in recent years, including Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles.
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Women, Art, and Society

The definitive work on the subject, mapping a complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today


This acclaimed study 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 have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick’s survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. This revised edition features a new final chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s. It is brought up to date with discussions of some of the most significant women artists to have emerged in recent years, including Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles.
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Women, Art, and Society

Women, Art, and Society

by Whitney Chadwick
Women, Art, and Society

Women, Art, and Society

by Whitney Chadwick

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The definitive work on the subject, mapping a complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today


This acclaimed study 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 have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick’s survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. This revised edition features a new final chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s. It is brought up to date with discussions of some of the most significant women artists to have emerged in recent years, including Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780500204054
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 10/01/2012
Series: World of Art
Edition description: Fifth Edition
Pages: 536
Sales rank: 1,029,872
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Whitney Chadwick is a professor emerita at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement and Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership.

Flavia Frigeri is an art historian, curator, and teaching fellow at University College London. Frigeri is the author of Pop Art and Women Artists, both in the Art Essentials series.

Table of Contents


Preface     7
Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist     17
The Middle Ages     43
The Renaissance Ideal     66
The Other Renaissance     87
Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe     114
Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England     139
Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England     175
Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century     205
Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the New Art     228
Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25     252
Modernist Representation: The Female Body     279
Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War     316
Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain     355
New Directions: A Partial Overview     378
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart     423
A Place to Grow: Personal Visions, Global Concerns, 2000-06     467
Bibliography and Sources     496
List of Illustrations     516
Index     523
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