Feminism And Art History: Questioning The Litany / Edition 1

by Norma Broude, Mary Garrard

Overview

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially about Western art history and the extent to which it has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias. With 306 illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064301176
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	08/11/1982
Series:	ICON Editions Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	372
Sales rank:	688,296
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard are professors of art history at the American University in Washington, D.C., and are leading scholars in the field of feminist art history. Broude is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987), Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Georges Seurat (1992). Garrard has written articles and reviews on feminism and art history, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo and Raphael, and Renaissance sculpture. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and, with Broude, the coeditor of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982).

Table of Contents

* Introduction: Feminism and Art History Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. * Matrilineal Reinterpretation of Some Egyptian Sacred Cows Nancy Luomala. * The Great Goddess and the Palace Architecture of Crete Vincent Scully. * Mourners on Greek Vases: Remarks on the Social History of Women Christine Mitchell Havelock. * Social Status and Gender in Roman Art: The Case of the Saleswoman Natalie Boymel Kampen. * Eve and Mary: Conflicting Images of Medieval Woman Henry Kraus. * Taking a Second Look: Observations on the Iconography of a French Queen, Jeanne de Bourbon (13381378) Claire Richter Sherman. * Delilah Madlyn Millner Kahr. * Artemisia and Susanna M. D. Garrard. * Judith Leysters PropositionBetween Virtue and Vice Frima Fox Hofrichter. * Art History and Its Exclusions: The Example of Dutch Art Svetlana Alpers. * Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art Carol Duncan. * Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman Linda Nochlin. * Degass Misogyny N. Broude. * Gender or Genius? The Woman Artists of German Expressionism Alessandra Comini. * Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting C. Duncan. * Miriam Schapiro and Femmage: Reflections on the Conflict Between Decoration and Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art N. Broude. * Quilts: The Great American Art Patricia Mainardi.