Women, Art, and Society - Softcover

Chadwick, Whitney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500181942 ISBN 13: 9780500181942

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1990

Synopsis

Describes the conditions women artists worked under from the Middle Ages to the present, and discusses women's relationship to, and involvement in, art.

About this title

About the Author:

Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art History at San Frandisco State University. Among her previous books are Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Significant Others and Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks.

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Like many women artists of the time, Gentileschi and Sirani were the daughters of painters. Orazio Gentileschi was one of the most important of Caravaggio's followers; Giovanni Andrea Sirani a pupil and follower of Reni, and an artist of considerably less interest than his daughter. Gentileschi is the first woman artist in the history of Western art whose historical significance is unquestionable. In the case of Sirani, her early death has prevented a full evaluation of her career despite her evident fame during her life. Sirani's father took all of her income from a body of work which she herself, following a custom gaining favor during the seventeenth century, catalogued at 150 paintings, a figure now considered too low. Despite her catalogue, no monograph exists and her reputation has suffered from an over-attribution of inferior works in Reni's style to her.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0500181942
• ISBN 13: 9780500181942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 383