| The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Meskimmon, Marsha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231106874 ISBN-13: 9780231106870 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: This is the first book of its kind to examine a wide variety of women's self-portraiture (including performance and body art), thereby reclaiming important works that have been marginalized by a cultural fixation with male self-portraiture. In lucid prose, gratefully unfettered by jargon and rhetoric, Meskimmon moves us to the ineluctable conclusion that an examination of art and art criticism is less than half-precise when it is only half-gendered, and that our present notions of female subjects in art must be significantly reformulated. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Social Science | Women's Studies - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 704.942 |
| LCCN: 96-14028 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.2" W x 9.24" (0.98 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With 43 illustrations of works by Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, among others, The Art of Reflection is the first sustained inquiry into the appropriation of self-portraiture by women painters, photographers, scultptors, and performance artists. |