Women, Art, and Society - Softcover

Chadwick, Whitney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202419 ISBN 13: 9780500202418

Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 1990

Synopsis

The place of women in the history of Western art remains controversial. In this brilliant and eagerly awaited study, Chadwick explores the issues relating to the conditions under which women have worked as artists from the Middle Ages to the present. Illustrated.

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About the Author:

Whitney Chadwick is an art historian. She is the author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement and Women, Art and Society.

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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 and Hudson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0500202419
• ISBN 13: 9780500202418
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384