Customer Reviews

Great Women Masters of Art (Great Masters of Art)

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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!

Great Women Masters of Art (Great Masters of Art)

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.

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.

I liked this book a lot. I knew very little about women in art in the renaissance period (which is what I got this book to read up on). Didn't really care for the shape of the book (tall and skinny), but can't hold that against the content.

Has a greatest hits type feel, which for an introduction seems appropriate. Led me on to other books. I like it.