The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium - Softcover

Heartney, Eleanor; Posner, Helaine; Princenthal, Nancy; Scott, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791347594 ISBN 13: 9783791347592

Publisher: Prestel USA, 2013

Synopsis

The authors of After the Revolution return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that “The battles may not all have been won...but barricades are gradually coming down, and work proceeds on all fronts in glorious profusion.” Now, with The Reckoning, authors Heartney, Posner, Princenthal, and Scott bring into focus the accomplishments of 24 acclaimed international women artists born since 1960 who have benefited from the groundbreaking efforts of their predecessors. The book is organized in four thematic sections: “Bad Girls” profiles artists whose work represents an assault on conventional notions of gender and racial difference. “History Lessons” offers reflections on the self in the context of history and globalization. “Spellbound” focuses on women’s embrace of the irrational, subjective, and surreal, while Domestic Disturbances” takes on women’s conflicted relationship to home, family, and security. Written in lively prose and fully illustrated throughout, this book gives an informed account of the wonderful diversity of recent contemporary art by women.

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The authors of After the Revolution return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. Heartney, Posner, Princenthal, and Scott bring into focus the accomplishments of 24 acclaimed international women artists born since 1960 who have benefited from the groundbreaking efforts of their predecessors. Written in lively prose and fully illustrated throughout, this book gives an informed account of the wonderful diversity of recent contemporary art by women.

About the Author:

Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor to Art in America and Art Press. Her books include Art and Today and Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Helaine Posner is Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Neuberger Museum of Art at the SUNY Purchase and the author of Kiki Smith.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel USA
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3791347594
• ISBN 13: 9783791347592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256