Social Stratification & Social Classes, General & Miscellaneous Art, Women's Studies, Art Styles & Periods, Feminism, Art by Subjects
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Overview
Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women haunt nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western painting. This book brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on the subject as she considers works by Millet, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among others. In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history which rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians who investigate the work before their eyes while focussing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit.Editorials
Christine Stansell
A particular sensibility, not a cumulative argument, loops the pieces in this book together, a perspective which combines erudition, ardor and hererodox opinion....Nochlin, with her sharp questions and peremptory demands that painters of modern life paint modern life in all its grand unease, gives the paintings a jolt.— London Review of Books
Millard
While reading this stunning example of intellectual acumen, it's difficult not to feel as enriched and liberated by art as the fledgling Nochlin of thirty years ago, whose contagious passion still shines through today.—ForeWord
Book Details
Published
March 29, 1999
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pages
267
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780500280980