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50 Women Artists You Should Know (50 You Should Know)
This beautifully produced, richly detailed and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi and the seventeenth-century illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to Impressionists Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and to moder...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
April 30th 2008
by Prestel USA
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This is a good cursory overview of important female artists. All of the biggest names are there along with dates of birth and death as well as a very brief description of style and famous works. Weidemann chose to include performance and installation artists, which other reviewers took offense to, but I found really refreshing. There is however, an imbalance in art forms over the decades with painters stacked heavily in the earlier centuries and sparsely represented in the modern age. Not exactl...more
I enjoyed the information I was able to glean from this book. I was, however, disappointed in it for a couple of reasons. First, having read "50 Artists You Should Know", I am aware that the publishers did not feel the need to discuss every male artist's female lover and they certainly did not go on at length if she was also an artist, or imply that these men may have gotten their style from their female counterparts. Yet, in this book, artist after artist is discussed in the shadow of her male...more
A beautifully produced book on women in art, with plenty of pictures, essays and fitting in where, when they worked. An excellent resource for those who want a good starting point for further research.
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appreciating the local library's gift from the town's women's club.
great to have nice quality color pictures. it's really like a picture book. wish each artist got at least one extra spread of pictures though - some profiles only featured one work. has strengthened that realization of preference of fine art over modern art...
great to have nice quality color pictures. it's really like a picture book. wish each artist got at least one extra spread of pictures though - some profiles only featured one work. has strengthened that realization of preference of fine art over modern art...
I choose this book to find out about women artist's. There was only a small amount written on each woman. But the art was incredible. Some was to my taste, so was not. If you would like to know the most important information and probably their most common painting known this would be that book.
There is something very disturbing about the way this book begins and where it goes.
Intersting collection of artists. Although there are some I think should have been included.
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