Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85 - Softcover

Rosen, Randy; Brawer, Catherine Coleman; Landau, Ellen; Tomkins, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558591613 ISBN 13: 9781558591615

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 1991

Synopsis

Looks at paintings, sculpture, drawings, and videotapes by modern women artists and offers brief profiles of each individual

About this title

About the Author:

Judith E. Stein is a Philadelphia-based writer and curator who specializes in postwar American art. A former arts reviewer for NPR's "Fresh Air" and "Morning Edition," her writing has appeared in "Art in America", "The New York Times Book Review", and numerous museum publications. She is the recipient of a Pew Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in literary non-fiction and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. A graduate of Barnard College, she holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

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The work of many women artists during the 1970's and the 80's helped foster this re-engagement between art and life by re-emphasizing subjective and social concerns that had been outside the modernist visual lexicon....As members of a new pluralist avant-garde they enlarged the possibilities of art, helping to define a new mainstream that encompassed their work.

For me art accomplishes my own liberation. It makes me stronger.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1558591613
• ISBN 13: 9781558591615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300