Women & art : a history of women painters and sculptors from the renaissance to the 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Italians from Renaissance to Rococo. Traditional rearing of women ; The humanist influence ; The ordinary woman ; The renaissance ideal of beauty ; Influential renaissance women ; The artists ; Caterina Dei Vigri ; Properzia Di Rossi ; Sofonisba Anguissola ; Lavinia Fontana ; Marietta Robusti Tintoretto ; Artemisia Gentileschi ; Elisabetta Sirani ; Rosalba Carriera -- Flemish and Dutch artists: still life and genre. The reformation and its effect on women ; Education and work ; Growth of the middle class and the cult of the home ; The role of art and artists ; Levina Teerline ; Caterina van Hemessen ; Clara Peeters ; Anna Maria Schurmann ; Judith Leyster ; Maria van Oosterwyck ; Maria Sibylla Merian ; Rachel Ruysch -- The French academic tradition. Education and work ; Women and the salons ; Rousseau, romanticism and the cult of family ; Women and the Revolution ; Feminism after the Revolution ; The state of the arts and women artists ; Louise Moillon ; Sophie Chéron ; Anne Vallayer-Coster ; Adélaïde Labille-Guiard ; Elizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun ; Marguerite Gérard ; Constance Marie Charpentier ; Marie Guillemine Benoist ; Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot ; Félicie de Fauveau ; Rosa Bonheur --

The English school: portraiture. Education and work ; Women and the Industrial Revolution ; Writers and reformers ; The state of the arts and women artists ; Joan Carlile ; Mary Beale ; Anne Killegrew ; Catherine Read ; Frances Reynolds ; Angelica Kauffmann ; Mary Moser ; Anne Seymour Damer ; Marie Cosway ; Margaret Carpenter ; Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon ; Lucy Maddox Brown Rossetti ; Elizabeth Thompson ; Gwen John -- The American experience. The changing roles of women ; Education ; Some "scribbling women" ; The reformers ; The state of the arts and women artists ; Henrietta Johnston ; Patience Lowell Wright ; Eunice Griswold Pinney ; Sarah Goodridge ; Ann Hall ; Anna Claypoole Peale and Sara Miriam Peale ; Herminia Borchard Dassel ; Jane Stuart ; Lilly Martin Spencer ; Elisabet Ney ; Harriet Hosmer ; Edmonia Lewis ; Susan Macdowell Eakins ; Cecilia Beaux ; Anna Elizabeth Klumpke -- The Impressionist period. The status of women in 19th-century France ; The Impressionist movement ; Women artists of the Impressionist era ; Berthe Morisot ; Mary Cassatt ; Eva Gonzalès ; Suzanne Valadon --

20th century: an overview. Multitude movements ; The status of women artists -- The European moderns. Käthe Kollwitz ; Paula Modersohn-Becker ; Marianne von Werefkin ; Gabriele Münter ; Natalya Goncharova ; Alexander Exter ; Olga Rozanova ; Liubov Popova ; Sonia Terk-Delaunay ; Marie Laurencin ; Sophie Taeuber-Arp ; Germaine Richier ; Maria Elena Vieira da Silva ; Meret Oppenheim ; Leonora Carrington ; Barbara Hepworth ; Bridget Riley -- The American moderns. Florine Stettheimer ; Romaine Brooks ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Marguerite Thompson Zorach ; Kay Sage ; Anni Albers ; Louise Nevelson ; Alice Neel ; Isabel Bishop ; Lee Krasner ; Dorothea Tanning ; Elaine De Kooning ; Joan Mitchell ; Helen Frankenthaler ; Marisol.

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