The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work - Softcover

Greer, Germaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860646778 ISBN 13: 9781860646775

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Köllwitz--and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement.

About this title

About the Author:

Germaine Greer, critic, leader, and advocate, is the author of The Female Eunuch, The Change,and most recently The Whole Woman, all worldwide bestsellers. She lives in England.

Review:

It is everything we might have wished: passionate yet lucid, clear yet complex, deeply researched yet not pedantic. It is a book that explains, better than any I have ever read, the psychological, economic and even aesthetic reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all our artistic establishments. Erica Jong

About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1860646778
• ISBN 13: 9781860646775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 373