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Women and art : a post-feminist view / Alexander Adams ; illustrated by the author

Author
Adams, Alexander, 1973-
Published
Washington [D.C.] : Academica Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Scope -- Structure -- Essays -- 1. A History of Women Artists -- Ancient period to the rise of the academies -- Advent of the art school -- Women printmakers -- Women natural-history illustrators -- Women stone-carvers -- Women photographers -- La belle peintresse -- Case study: Marie Bashkirtseff, lost genius -- The ungendered artist -- The era of societies -- Case study: Tamara de Lempicka, cosmopolitan -- Summary -- 2. Women as Muses -- Origins of the muses -- Case study: Victorian damsels and duchesses -- Modernism and the muse -- Case study: Violette Noziere, murderess as muse -- Artist partners as muses -- Summary -- 3. Feminisms, Art and New Criticism -- Origins and variants of feminism -- Semiology, from Saussure to Berger -- Feminist art history and New Criticism -- Gender as performance -- Case study: the "erasure" of Mary Cassatt -- Feminist and Marxist class stances -- The road to self-alienation -- Feminism as religion -- Feminist iconography -- Case study: Janet Sobel and Jackson Pollock -- Summary -- 4. The Exclusion Fallacy -- The Western fine-art canon -- Case study: Camille Claudel, the artist imprisoned -- Impossibility of a world canon -- Hierarchies and anti-hierarchies -- Intersectionality and kyriarchy -- The tyranny of distribution -- What percentage of artists are women? -- The residual fallacy -- Summary -- 5. Prices and Quotas -- Price and prejudice -- Auction prices -- silver bullet or silver boomerang? -- Quotas against women artists -- Summary -- 6. New Facts and Figures -- Women in the arts, 2018-9 -- Summary -- Interpretation -- Summary -- 7. Women Artists or Women's Art? -- Does women's art exist? -- Stereotypes, exceptions and the problem of realism -- Case study: Ana Mendieta, woman artist martyred -- Feminist art is political art -- Summary -- Reviews -- 1. City of Women/Stadt der Frauen -- I -- II -- III -- 2. Bauhauslerinen -- I -- II -- III -- 3. Women as Creators and Subjects in Soviet Art -- 4. Women in National Socialist Art -- What is totalitarian art? -- Women in National Socialist art -- Radical feminism as totalitarianism -- Conclusions -- A question of freedom -- Appendices -- A. Chronology of education and exhibition opportunities for women artists up to 1910 -- B. Two texts by Marie Bashkirtseff -- I. "Women Painters" -- II. Letter to Rodolphe Julian -- C. Methodology of data collection for "Women in the Arts, 2018-9".
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ISBN
1680537733 (hardcover)
9781680537734 (hardcover)
9781680537758 (paperback)
168053775X (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
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