Women Artists between the Wars: 'A Fair Field and no Favour' - Hardcover

Deepwell, Katy

9780719080807: Women Artists between the Wars: 'A Fair Field and no Favour'

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719080800 ISBN 13: 9780719080807

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Starting with a critique of existing methodologies and histories of the period, this book examines the production of women artists, looking at different areas and aspects of their activities, and particularly contrasting the lives of different generations of women artists. Many of these women's names or their works are not familiar in art histories of the twentieth century.

The book analyses how women artists' presence which was consistently one third of the artists in many major exhibiting groups became less than 10% of the museum purchases and in art historical texts for this period. Comparisons are made between the opportunities presented to women artists and those of their male peers in the light of considerable change and restructuring within the art world in Britain during this period, principally due to the growing influence of modernism in the art market.

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About the Author:

Katy Deepwell is founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal.

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