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The story of art without men / Katy Hessel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First American editionDescription: 458 pages, 53 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393881868
  • 0393881865
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Contents:
Paving the Way : c.1500-c.1900. Painting herself into the canon -- Looking to a heroic past -- From realism to spiritualism -- What Made Art Modern : c.1870-c.1950. War, identity and the Paris avant-garde -- The aftermath of the First World War -- Modernism in the Americas -- War and the rise of new methods and media -- Postwar Women : c.1949-c.1970. The great era of experimentalism -- Political change and new abstractions -- The body -- Weaving new traditions -- Taking Ownership : 1970-2000. The era of feminism -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- Radical change in Britain -- Still Writing : 2000-Present. Decolonising narratives and reworking traditions -- Figuration in the twenty-first century -- The 2020s.
Summary: "How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before"--Provided by publisher.
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The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?

Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before.

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Hutchinson Heinemann."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [468]-[504]) and index (pages [508]-[511]).

Paving the Way : c.1500-c.1900. Painting herself into the canon -- Looking to a heroic past -- From realism to spiritualism -- What Made Art Modern : c.1870-c.1950. War, identity and the Paris avant-garde -- The aftermath of the First World War -- Modernism in the Americas -- War and the rise of new methods and media -- Postwar Women : c.1949-c.1970. The great era of experimentalism -- Political change and new abstractions -- The body -- Weaving new traditions -- Taking Ownership : 1970-2000. The era of feminism -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- Radical change in Britain -- Still Writing : 2000-Present. Decolonising narratives and reworking traditions -- Figuration in the twenty-first century -- The 2020s.

"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before"--Provided by publisher.

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