An entertaining, informative, and inspirational look at the greatest women artists of all time! The latest entry in the new Great Masters of Art series, Great Women Masters of Art is an affordable, easy-to-use guide featuring the life and work of the greatest women painters of Western art-from the 15th century to the present day. Legendary women painters of each key historical movement are included, such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gwen John, Frida Kahlo, and dozens more. Each artist is represented by several impressive reproductions of her most significant works, alongside a biographical timeline and brief history of her life and career. Every dazzling, full-color reproduction includes cultural and aesthetic discussions about the individual painting. Plus, entertaining anecdotes and stories bring each woman's inspirations, circumstances, and creative genius to life. This one-stop guide is appealing, compact, lavishly illustrated, and conveniently organized for fast and easy use. Great Women Masters of Art is an enjoyable trip for all.
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Jordi ViguŽ studied medieval history at the University of Barcelona and the Sorbonne in Paris. He has published numerous monographs and magazine articles on art and has edited a number of encyclopedias. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.
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This book is one in a finely done current art series, and every volume is a beauty! This one, "Great Women Masters" may be the best, since a large number of the artists here are not well known. Sure, there are Cassett, O'Keefe, and a few other very famous names, but perhaps the best descriptions and paintings are by pre-20th Century Artists,some from the 1500's,and especially some English Pre-Raphaelites. There are many,many color reproductions, descriptions of the lives of the artists, even very small color pictures at the book page corners, all which makes this a very special series, this being my favorite. Also, the size is rectangular and portable, not too heavy..All in all, just about perfect!
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Great Source of Reference Material,
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This book is helping me so much with retention of necessary information regarding works of art by women for my Women and Art class. The reproductions are beautiful and well detailed. I gave the book four stars because of certain discrepancies between dates and details compared with required texts for the class, otherwise, it is a great source of reference.
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Works have been noted by Prestel and other publishers that are neither as inclusive, nor as useful. The author here has selected a large number of woman artists both known and unknown to me with reasonable biographies, maybe 4 to 8 representative works, each reproduced with high-quality illustrations and these generally with reasonable texts concerning these works.
Some might seek to add or subtract some artists, but I would contend that one is not likely to find any work that is superior to this one.
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One of the objectives of this book is to bring together the best women painters in the history of Western art in a single volume, with a short monograph on each artist that includes a brief bibliography and a selection of their most significant works with commentary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Fanny Churberg, Parisian Salon, Fede Galizia, Van Oosterwijck, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, World War, Judy Chicago, Low Countries, Marianne North, San Francisco, Berthe Morisot, Clara Peeters, National Museum of Women, Sonia Delaunay, Sophie Anderson, Museo del Prado, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, French Revolution, Lucy Madox Brown, Alice Neel, Anna Boch, Anna Maria van Schurman New!
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One of the objectives of this book is to bring together the best women painters in the history of Western art in a single volume, with a short monograph on each artist that includes a brief bibliography and a selection of their most significant works with commentary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Fanny Churberg, Parisian Salon, Fede Galizia, Van Oosterwijck, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, World War, Judy Chicago, Low Countries, Marianne North, San Francisco, Berthe Morisot, Clara Peeters, National Museum of Women, Sonia Delaunay, Sophie Anderson, Museo del Prado, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, French Revolution, Lucy Madox Brown, Alice Neel, Anna Boch, Anna Maria van Schurman New!
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- National Museum of American Art (Postcard Books) by Institute Press Smithsonian on 7 pages
- Jenny Saville by Gagosian Gallery on page 467, page 469, and page 470
- Still Life by American Federation Of Art on page 78, page 110, and page 259
- William Morris by Linda Parry on page 203
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold on page 437
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