At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women-including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor-and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century.
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"Anyone wondering 'Where are the great women artists?' should be directed to Munro's remarkable and absorbing book." -- The Atlantic Monthly
"Enlightening about how art is made and how it feels to be doing it....It is passion that makes this book shine." -- Janet Hobhouse, New York Times
"Enlightening about how art is made and how it feels to be doing it....It is passion that makes this book shine." -- Janet Hobhouse, New York Times
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Eleanor Munro has published essays and art criticism in Art in America, Ms., The New Republic, and the New York Times. Among her other books is Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter. She lives in New York City.
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As Louise Bourgeois said, "Mai, c'est serieux!" Munro covers Cassatt through Kikki Smith using history rather than iconography and enlivens the telling with her many terrific interviews. Especially interesting was the difference between her experience interviewing women artists in the nineties versus interviewing them in the seventies. Munro found it extremely hard to reach these new celebrity artists who, like men, wouldn't share their fears or failures for history. A classic which happens to be about women.
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New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionist, Mary Frank, Los Angeles, Maya Lin, Kiki Smith, Whitney Museum, Abstract Expressionism, Louise Bourgeois, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Art Institute, Women's Movement, Jeanne Reynal, New Jersey, Clement Greenberg, David Smith, Lenore Tawney, World War, Anne Truitt, Georgia O'Keeffe New!
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New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionist, Mary Frank, Los Angeles, Maya Lin, Kiki Smith, Whitney Museum, Abstract Expressionism, Louise Bourgeois, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Art Institute, Women's Movement, Jeanne Reynal, New Jersey, Clement Greenberg, David Smith, Lenore Tawney, World War, Anne Truitt, Georgia O'Keeffe New!
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