Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who 'transcended' their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contribution to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her disussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality.

With a new preface and epilogue from an exciting new authority on the history of women artists, this revised edition continues the project of charting the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy in recent years, revealing how artists have responded to new strategies of feminism for the current moment.

A new edition of a groundbreaking classic - one of the bestselling World of Art titles, updated for this urgent moment for women artists, and feminist history in general

About the Author
Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Women, Art and Society and Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership. Flavia Frigeri is an art historian and curator, and Teaching Fellow at University College London. She is the author of several books, including Pop Art and Women Artists, both in Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series.

Reviews
'Packed with information, controversy, argument and very good art' - Times Educational Supplement
'An enormously useful work' - The Sunday Times



Book Information
ISBN 9780500204566
Author Whitney Chadwick
Format Paperback
Page Count 600
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1220g