Feminism and art history : questioning the litany

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9780064301176
9780064305259
0064301176
0064305252

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N72.F45 F44 1982

Contents:

Introduction : feminism and art history / Norma Broude & Mary D. Garrard -- Matrilineal reinterpretation of some Egyptian sacred cows / Nancy Luomala -- Great Goddess and the palace architecture of Crete / Vincent Scully -- Mourners on Greek vases : remarks on the social history of women / Christine Mitchell Havelock -- Social status and gender in Roman art : the case of the saleswoman / Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Eve and Mary : conflicting images of medieval woman / Henry Kraus -- Taking a second look : observations on the iconography of a French queen, Jeanne de Bourbon (1338-1378) / Claire Richter Sherman --

Summary: A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	N 72 FEM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0013838

"Icon editions."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Delilah / Madlyn Millner Kahr -- Artemisia and Susanna / Mary D. Garrard -- Judith Leyster's proposition -- between virtue and vice / Frima Fox Hofrichter -- Art history and its exclusions : the example of Dutch art / Svetlana Alpers -- Happy mothers and other new ideas in eighteenth-century French art / Carol Duncan -- Lost and found : once more the fallen woman / Linda Nochlin -- Degas's "Misogyny" / Norman Broude -- Gender or genius? The women artists of German expressionism / Alessandra Comini -- Virility and domination in early twentieth-century vanguard painting / Carol Duncan -- Miriam Schapiro and "Femmage" : reflections on the conflict between decoration and abstraction in twentieth-century art / Norma Broude -- Quilts : the great American art / Patricia Mainardi.

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present.