Women Artists

Chakaia Booker: The Observance accompanies the first comprehensive museum survey of the American artist. The publication explores the artist's signature form-monumental works made of rubber-while showcasing her innovations across mediums. Featuring an...

Born from the bold, provocative aircraft nose art splashed across war birds of World War II, Lowbrow Art was carried to the streets by the mechanics and car builders of the 1950s and 1960s. Dripping with rich color, street-level sensibilities, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230219Author Len PrinceFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of art Through deep archival research and nuanced analysis, Elizabeth Ferrell examines the creative exchange that developed with and around...

Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality--such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--she considers abstraction and...

This first major retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains unearths her significant contributions to Chicanx/Latinx art and feminism. Best known for her pioneering altar installations, Amalia Mesa-Bains is one of the most innovative feminist and Latinx artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430152Author Amy Von LintelFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University PressWeight(grams) 363g

The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity and to create art as a culturally, politically or racially...

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Unforgettable highlights over 40 female artists from the seventeenth-century Low Countries, challenging their historical obscurity and showcasing their diverse contributions to art. Accompanies an exhibition at NMWA from 26 September 2025 to 11 January...

Quotations from leading women artists paired with iconic artworks, offering powerful insights into their creative journeys and the challenges they've faced over 150 years.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484120Author Reba MayburyFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

In Tucson during the 1950s, nearly everyone knew, or wanted to know, the southwestern artist Mac Schweitzer. Born Mary Alice Cox in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921, she grew up a tomboy who adored horses, cowboys, and art. After training at Cleveland School of...

An illuminating examination of the interconnectivity of women artists and activists in Great Britain from the Victorian era through the Second World War Women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945 learned to deftly negotiate private and...

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Art and citizenship in conflict examines how British women war artists used visual art to question, even reframe prevailing ideas about citizenship during the Second World War. Their paintings, prints, and drawings expose the sometimes-deep contradiction...

This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artist...

Discover over 250 contemporary women recipients of the "Anonymous Was A Woman" award. Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years celebrates the transformative impact of women artists on contemporary art since the founding of the titular grant. In...

The highly anticipated first survey of the work of American painter Nicole Wittenberg Over the past two decades, Nicole Wittenberg has developed an expressive body of work that includes paintings of landscapes, portraits, and erotica. Best known for her...

A collection of inspiring and empowering quotations from an artist noted for her frank treatment of sex-and for her portraits of Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Lady Gaga, and LizzoSince the 1980s, Marilyn Minter has been a pioneer of sex-positive feminism in...

Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910: In Search of the Modern follows a number of female Danish artists who rebelled against the notion that art was a male-dominated discipline. They attended Georg Brandes' lectures, discarded their corsets, and...

This biography carves out a central place for Marion Greenwood in the pantheon of remarkable women artists.About the AuthorJoanne B. Mulcahy taught creative nonfiction at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, for thirty years. She is the author of...

Maggi Hambling has over time responded to the sound of song in her work, consistently capturing it in gold against a black ground-to date her diverse subjects have included the singers Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, P J Harvey, and Will Young. More recently,...

A celebration of 'women’s work', this book features contemporary artists from around the globe who are transforming what it means to make craft. “Women’s work” has historically been relegated to the domestic, absent from galleries and discussions of “art...

A major rediscovery in the history of Northwest art Beulah Loomis Hyde (1886-1983) was an important cultural figure in Tacoma, Washington, as both a contemporary painter and a patron of the arts. Growing up in the rugged Northwest environment, Hyde was...