Offers a perceptive journey through Western art history, highlighting artists from Gentileschi to Kahlo, from Amrita Sher-gil to Jenny Saville, exploring the fascinating lives of diverse female painters and their artworks within often-challenging cultural contexts.
Who were the pioneering female painters and who are the best
contemporary women painters around today?
Discover the historic, contemporary, and global landscapes
of female painters in
Unlocking Women's Art. Dive into iconic movements
(from
Portraiture & Identity to
The Avant Garde;
The Nudeto
Landscape and Nature) and find out about the significance of female
creativity. Challenge your existing views of women artists and look beyond
Eurocentric ideas to learn about brilliant Indigenous and global artists of the
past.
Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary painters,
providing fascinating insights into their practices, themes and personal
motivation. Full colour with dozens of new and original images of the featured
women artists' work.