Asian Women Artists - A Biographical Dictionary, 2700 BCE to Today

This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu's Chinese sericulture in 2700 BCE and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, this book focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

¿1.¿Ancient Era

¿2.¿Late Classical Era

¿3.¿Late ­Byzantine-Islamic Era

¿4.¿Middle Ages

¿5.¿Renaissance

¿6.¿1650s-1880s

¿7.¿1890s-1920s

¿8.¿1930s

¿9.¿1940-1944

10.¿1945-1950s

11.¿1960s

12.¿1970s-1980s

13.¿1990s-2000s

Chronology of Asian Women's Art

Appendix A.¿Artists by Genres

Appendix B.¿Artists by Place

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 35 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina for 23 years. Her writing focuses on women's and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Snodgrass Mary Ellen
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781476689258
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-8925-8
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Asia, The arts: general issues, ART / Reference, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, Dictionaries of biography, Dictionaries Of Biography (Who's Who), The arts: general topics