American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the PresentThis volume is a general history of American women artists, suitable for use as a textbook, and threading the fine line between appealing to a broad readership while containing a large measure of scholarly depth. The author considers a diversified range of traditional and avant-garde styles, and many media, including fine and decorative arts, excepting only photography and architecture. Along with art, Rubinstein addresses the broader cultural context in which these artists worked, noting interactions, collaborations with other artists, to highlight the relation between women's art and their social and cultural circumstances. Numerous quotations from both the artists themselves and their contemporaries serve to create a vivid chronicle of how these women worked, the historical influences that shaped them, and how their careers progressed. The author states in the introduction that her aim was not simply to add women to the existing art histories, but to illustrate how "Women have played an active, influential, and continuous role in the creation of every type of art in America." |
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... lived on into the twentieth century as a successful Parisian artist . Kathleen Honora became a well - known decorative artist , still - life painter , and book illustrator . " Francesca " ( née Esther Frances ) Alexander ( 1837-1917 ) ...
... lived on into the twentieth century as a successful Parisian artist . Kathleen Honora became a well - known decorative artist , still - life painter , and book illustrator . " Francesca " ( née Esther Frances ) Alexander ( 1837-1917 ) ...
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... lived in Berlin and experi- enced the modern art revolution of the Bauhaus ; the purity of constructivism of the twenties can still be felt in her work . In 1930 she married a pediatri- cian , Hermann Vollmer , who shared her cultural ...
... lived in Berlin and experi- enced the modern art revolution of the Bauhaus ; the purity of constructivism of the twenties can still be felt in her work . In 1930 she married a pediatri- cian , Hermann Vollmer , who shared her cultural ...
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... lived on 10th Street in a studio building where Joan Mitchell , Philip Guston , and other young artists lived . They became part of the exciting New York art community , and she was . soon a well - known member of the " second genera ...
... lived on 10th Street in a studio building where Joan Mitchell , Philip Guston , and other young artists lived . They became part of the exciting New York art community , and she was . soon a well - known member of the " second genera ...
Contents
Theorem Paintings and Ladies Seminaries | 30 |
Chapter 3 | 39 |
Chapter 4 | 95 |
Copyright | |
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American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein No preview available - 1982 |
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