Women, Art and Society

Thames & Hudson, London, 2002. Third Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 496 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, are exceptions who "transcended" their sex in achieving major works of art. In fact, many other women have produced paintings, sculptures, and crafts since the Middle Ages, and have been neglected. Whitney Chadwick provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: she reexamines 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. Since Women, Art, and Society was first published in 1990, globalization, rapidly shifting demographic and geographic realities, and an explosion of new technologies have transformed the ways we think about the world, and prompted yet more critical consideration of how gender, sexual difference, race, and culture intersect. 303 illustrations, 79 in color. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0500203547. ISBN/EAN: 9780500203545. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9592. . 9780500203545