Women Artists (Art Essentials)

by Flavia Frigeri

Overview

A chronological introduction to women artists throughout history, this book provides a rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to the present day.

In 1971, in an essay that has now become one of the touchstones of feminist art history, Linda Nochlin raised the question heard round the world: “Why have there been no great women artists?” Since the 1970s, as a result of this kind of consciousness-raising, the feminist discourse around art has expanded, addressing forms of activism, the idea of a feminist aesthetic, the female body, sexuality, and representation more largely. The reframing of female contributions to the history of art is still ongoing, and this new addition to the Art Essentials series draws attention to some of its key dimensions.

Focusing on fifty diverse women artists from Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, and Mona Hatoum, this book equips readers with an understanding of feminist art, as well as an appreciation of its most important figures. This latest addition to the Art Essentials series documents women artists in context to offer readers a rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500294352
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	04/23/2019
Series:	Art Essentials , #6
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	322,821
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Introduction 6

Breaking Ground (born between 1550 and 1850)

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) 10

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1652) 12

Clara Peeters, (1607-21) 16

Rosalba Camera (1675-1757) 20

Angelica kauffman (1741-1807) 21

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) 26

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) 28

Rosa Bonheur(1822-99) 32

Berthe Morisot (1841-95) 34

Mary Cassatt (1844-l926) 38

Pioneers of the Avant-Garde (born between 1860 and 1899)

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) 44

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) 46

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) 50

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) 52

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) 54

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) 56

Hannah Hoch (1889-1924) 60

Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) 62

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) 64

Benedetta Cappa Marines (1897-1977) 66

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) 70

Louise Nelson (1899-1988) 72

Triumphs and Tribulations (born between 1900 and 1925)

Alice Neel (1900-84) 76

Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) 80

Frida Kahlo (1907-54) 82

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-92) 84

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) 86

Gego (1912-94) 90

Agnes Martin (1912-2004) 94

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41) 96

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) 100

Carol Rama (1918-2015) 102

Joan Mitchell (1925-92) 104

Challenging Stereotypes (born between 1926 and 1940)

Alina Szapocznikow (1926-73) 108

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) 110

Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) 112

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) 114

Magdalena Abakanowkz (1930-2017) 116

Yoko Ono (b.1933) 118

Sheila Hicks (b.1934) 120

Eva Hesse (1936-70) 122

Joan Jonas (b.1936) 126

Judy Chicago (b.1939) 128

Carolee Schneemann (b.1939) 130

Contemporary Views (born between 1942 and 1985)

Anna Maria Maiolino (b.1942) 134

Graciela Iturbide (b.1943) 136

Martha Rosler (b.1943) 140

Marina Abramovic (b.1946) 142

Ana Mendieta (1948-85) 144

Cindy Sherman (b.1954,) 146

Frances Woodman (1958-81) 150

Olga Chernysheva (b.1962) 154

Rachel Whiteread (b.1963) 156

Tracey Emin (b.1963) 158

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) 160

Amalia Pica (b.1978) 162

Guerrilla Girls (founded 1985) 164

Timeline 166

Glossary 168

Further reading 172

Index of artists 173

Picture acknowledgements 175