Female gazes : seventy-five women artists

Martin, Elizabeth, 1946-, author.

Book 1997

An intriguing and unusual collection of biographies and art, Female Gazes is a popular introduction to the lives and work of some remarkable women artists from the Renaissance to the present. Vivid reproductions and commentary accompany the life stories of a diverse group of women from Canada, the United States and Europe.

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ISBN:

9780929005997
0929005996

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index

Contents:

Sofonisba Anguissola : Portrait of the artist's sister Minerva
Artemisia Gentileschi : Judith and Holofernes
Judith Leyster : The flute player
Rachel Ruysch : Flower still life
Françoise Duparc : Young woman mending
Angelica Kauffmann : The artist hesitating between the arts of music and painting
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun : Self-portrait
Susanna Moodie : Bouquet of garden flowers
Anne Whitney : Charles Sumner
Rosa Bonheur : The horse fair
Hannah Maynard : Self-portrait
Emily Mary Osborn : Nameless and friendless
Berthe Morisot : Young girl by the window
Mary Cassatt : The letter
Edmonia Lewis : Old arrow maker
Frances and Margaret Macdonald : Poster for the Institute of Fine Arts
Suzanne Valadon : Adam and Eve
Käthe Kollwitz : Solidarity--the propeller song
Emily Carr : Forest, British Colombia
Gwen John : A corner of the artist's room in Paris
Meta Warrick Fuller : Talking Skull
Vanessa Bell : Lytton Strachey
Helen McNicoll : Under the shadow of the tent
Natalia Goncharova : Linen
Frances Loring : Furnace girl
Florence Wyle : Noon hour
Georgia O'Keefe : Yellow calla
Dorothea Lange : Migrant mother, Nipomo, California
Kay Sage : I saw three cities
Paraskeva Clark : Petroushka
Louise Nevelson : Mirror-shadow II
Alice Neel : Margaret Evans pregnant
Alexandra Luke : Surge into summer
Isabel Bishop : Bootblack
Barbara Hepworth : Single form (memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld)
Pitseolak : Woman hiding from spirit
Lois Mailou Jones : Les fétiches
Lee Krasner : Cornucopia
Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird
Doris McCarthy : Iceberg fantasy #24
Agnes Martin : Falling blue
Elizabeth Catlett : Sharecropper
Daphne Odjig : Beauty in transition
Gathie Falk : Theatre in black and white and colour : Alberta spruce and streamers
Helen Frankenthaler : Before the caves
Bessie Harvey : Tribal spirits
Marisol : Women and dog
Faith Ringgold : Tar Beach
Audrey Flack : Marilyn (Vanitas)
Joyce Wieland : The water quilt
Maryon Kantaroff : Daughter of the moon
Mary Pratt : Salmon on saran
Eva Hesse : Contingent
Christiane Pflug : Kitchen door with Esther
Aganetha Dyck : The wedding dress, The extended wedding party
Evelyn Rothe : Shell knit
Aiko Suzuki : Lyra
Vera Frenkel : Body missing
Judy Chicago : The dinner party
June Clark : Untitled
Yolanda M. Lopez : Portrait of the artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe
Milly Ristvedt : After Rameau's nephew
Helen Hardin : Changing woman
Colette Whiten : Family
Nicole Jolicoeur : Étude de JM Charcot (a)
Jana Sterbak : Remote control, I
Jamelie Hassan : The oblivion seekers
Liz Magor : 4 boys and a girl
Janice Gurney : Searching black mirrors for hidden diamonds
Shirley Wiitasalo : Black and white
Barbara Klunder : Monkey businessmen medicine chest
Grace Channer : The women before
Rebecca Belmore : Artifact 671B
Midi Onodera : Ten cents a dance (parallax)

LCCN:

98154436

Control Number:

66855

Other Authors:

Meyer, Vivian, 1958-, author

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