Women & Art (UK)

Dada's Women

2012-06-28T10:00:00.001-07:00

The European Dada movement of the early twentieth century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends, or sisters of Dada men. This book challenges that assumption, focusing on the creative contributions made to Dada by five pivotal European women.

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Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism

2012-06-28T08:07:00.001-07:00

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Harem : the World behind the Veil

2012-06-25T10:51:00.001-07:00

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Harem: The World Behind the Veil

2012-06-25T10:29:00.001-07:00

Very light wear.Contents clean and unmarked.

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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

2012-06-25T10:22:00.001-07:00

Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered. This biography charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, from San Francisco portrait photographer to chronicler of the Great Depression and Second World War.

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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

2012-06-25T10:20:00.001-07:00

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Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient

2012-06-25T09:31:00.003-07:00

Unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages. This work offers an analysis of Europe's fabricated Orient, as expressed in its writings and illustrated in its paintings.

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Women's War (History Detective Investigates: Britain at War)

2012-06-25T09:31:00.001-07:00

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Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile

2012-06-25T03:24:00.001-07:00

Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

2012-06-23T17:52:00.001-07:00

Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

2012-06-20T15:22:00.001-07:00

This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap in scholarship. From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine not only twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, but also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic forms across Latin America, including Panamanian molas (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).

Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss artwork from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Suriname, and Puerto Rico, and many of their essays focus on indigenous artists. They highlight the complex webs of social relations from which folk art emerges. For instance, while several pieces describe the similar creative and technical processes of indigenous pottery-making communities of the Amazon and of mestiza potters in Mexico and Colombia, they also reveal the widely varying functions of the ceramics and meanings of the iconography. Integrating the social, historical, political, geographical, and economic factors that shape folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean, Crafting Gender sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it.

Contributors
Eli Bartra
Ronald J. Duncan
Dolores Juliano
Betty LaDuke
Lourdes Rejón Patrón
Sally Price
María de Jesús Rodríguez-Shadow
Mari Lyn Salvador
Norma Valle
Dorothea Scott Whitten

Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

2012-06-19T20:06:00.001-07:00

Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology

2012-06-17T08:14:00.001-07:00

From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, 'Charlie's Angels' to 'The Powerpuff Girls', Superwomen are more than just sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. Featuring spies and sexuality, daddy's girls and super-mothers, this is a guide to female detectives, meta-humans and action heroines, as well as their creators, directors, performers, and consumers.

Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution

2012-06-15T05:05:00.001-07:00

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (17551842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigée Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun’s portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world.

This gripping biography tells the story of a singularly gifted and high-spirited woman during the revolutionary era and explores the development and significance of her art. The book also recounts the public and private lives of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, connecting her with such personalities of her age as Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, and setting her experiences in the context of contemporary European politics and culture. A generous selection of illustrations, including sixteen of Vigée Le Brun’s portraits presented in full color, completes this exceptional volume.

Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution

2012-06-15T05:00:00.001-07:00

Love Me or Kill Me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (Theatre: Theory, Practice, Performance)

2012-06-12T04:48:00.001-07:00

Based on conversations with directors and actors who knew her, this book is a study of the British post-war dramatist, Sarah Kane. It covers all her major plays and productions, as well as unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death.

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

2012-06-12T04:45:00.001-07:00

Stripping Gypsy:The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

2012-06-12T04:43:00.001-07:00

Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized Gypsy, examines the struggles Lee faced in making a lucrative and unconventional career for herself while maintaining a sense of dignity and social value. Frankel shows that the famous Miss Lee was an enigma, clearly struggling with her choices and her desire to be respected and legitimized. Those who know Gypsy Rose Lee only from the musical and film based on her rise to stardom will be surprised by what they uncover in Stripping Gypsy. In all ways, Lee trafficked in the incongruous: she was at once sex object, intellectual, and activist. In addition to her highly successful strip-tease act and film career, she published two mystery novels and a memoir, wrote two plays, and showed her original artwork in famed Modern Art-impresario Peggy Guggenheim's gallery. Lee also gained notoriety for her participation in liberal politics. As photographer Arnold Newman said, "She was a lady, a brilliant, bright woman who was the friend of many writers and intellectuals." Though she wasn't above using her femininity to full advantage, Lee aspired to much more than admiration for her physical beauty. Frankel places Lee's life in social and political context while detailing a fascinating entertainment career, in which Lee created and recreated her own identity to fit changing times. Frankel's biography transcends the sensationalism of stripping and asks the public to see the woman beneath the costume, a woman who always kept a little of herself shrouded in mystery.

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

2012-06-11T16:24:00.001-07:00

Clarice Cliff

2012-06-11T00:35:00.001-07:00

Clarice Cliff

2012-06-11T00:34:00.001-07:00

Clarice Cliff was one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Born in 1899 in the Staffordshire Potteries, she started work as just another factory girl, but by 1928 had launched her own range of pottery, 'Bizarre'. A 'gargantuan feast of colour', it blazed a trail through the homes of inter-war Britain. But if Clarice Cliff's rise from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable - and all the more so for her being a woman - it was not without its tensions; for years she conducted a secret relationship with her married boss. Fusing art, design and industry and vividly conveying the texture of women's lives between the wars, this is a compelling study of the complex, talented woman whose work is for many the epitome of art deco.

Empress and Handmaid: Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary

2012-06-10T00:52:00.001-07:00

Van Gogh's Women: His Love Affairs and Journey into Madness

2012-06-10T00:50:00.001-07:00

Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

2012-06-08T16:12:00.001-07:00

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Diane Arbus Revelations

2012-06-05T12:05:00.001-07:00