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Too intelligent to be called a "crash course," Women and Art is more a declaration by its authors, a feminist artist and an art historian, that 'women's art' has been hugely misunderstood, when it's even acknowledged, for almost as long as it has existed. Entirely readable, not too dense, and peppered with personal anecdotes from the authors in the margins to supplement the academic tone of the text. The art, obviously, is the raison d'etre. Best are the side-by-side comparisons of the same subj...
Easy read, discuss many artworks but didn't have images of all. Divided into 10 chapters -- the Divine, the Heroic, Maternity, Daily Life, Asking for It?, Casting Couch and Brothel, I Paint therefore I Am, Body as Battleground, Household Vanities and Exploring Identities. Saw many works of art that I never saw before.
An art book well balanced between words and images. The main text is by Edward Lucie-Smith (neat trick to have a male author with a female forename for a surname) and the collaboration between him and Judy Chicago seems a little clunky. Her contribution is by way of an extensive glossing on his text, with personal anecdotes and histories (and nothing wrong with that) I'd've liked more evidence of actual conversation between them but I liked the way they could agree and disagree. The book, about
Why did I get rid of this book? Sometimes I am not very bright.This book is beautiful with so many color images and so much good information about women in art. I should have held on to this book forever.
“...how ‘great’ is yet another image of a nude woman displayed on a couch, no matter how well it might be painted?”
