Women, Art, and Society

by Chadwick, Whitney

• ISBN13: 9780500203545
• ISBN10: 0500203547
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Author Biography

On the cover: Alice Neel, Marxist Girl (Irene Paslikas), 1972.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(10)
Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist	17	(26)
The Middle Ages	43	(23)
The Renaissance Ideal	66	(21)
The Other Renaissance	87	(27)
Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe	114	(25)
Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Femininity in France and England	139	(36)
Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England	175	(30)
Toward Utopia: woman's Sphere and the American Art in the Nineteenth Century	205	(23)
Separate but Unequal: Woman's Sphere and the new art	228	(24)
Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman, 1910-25	252	(27)
Modernist Representation: The Female Body	279	(37)
Gender, Race, and Modernism after the Second World War	316	(39)
Feminist Art in North America and Great Britain	355	(23)
New Directions: A Partial Overview	378	(45)
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart	423	(44)
Bibliography and Sources	467	(19)
List of Illustrations	486	(6)
Index	492