Brushed Aside - The Untold Story of Women in Art

Informationen zum Autor Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, the American University of Rome, and the University of Ljubljana. He lives in Slovenia. Klappentext How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then... even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female curators, critics, patrons, collectors, muses, models and art influencers? This book provides a 360 degree look at the role, influence, and empowerment of women through art?including women artists, but going beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel. In 1971, Linda Nochlin published a famous essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?? This book responds to it by showing that not only have there been scores of great women artists throughout history, but that great women have shaped the story of art. The result is a book that sheds light on the art world in a very new way, finally celebrating the great women artists and influencers who deserve to be much better known. The entire history of art can be told as a herstory of art. Zusammenfassung How many female artists can you name? Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe? Here’s a 360-degree look at the role women have played in art history, including the influence and empowerment of women through art beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Abramovic, Noah Charney, Charney Noah, Ingrid Rowland
• Assisted by: Ingrid Rowland (Foreword), Abramovic Marina (Afterword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781538170991
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7099-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Individual artists, art monographs, Gender studies: women and girls