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Book SynopsisNow available in paper! This anthology brings together selections from sixty-one primary source documents_artist''s letters, journals, and memoirs; critics'' reviews; and minutes and reports of artists'' societies and schools_that illuminate the experience of women artists from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the United States and Europe. In addition to material related to the work of such well-known painters and sculptors as Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Rosa Bonheur, Harriet Hosmer, Cecilia Beaux, Marie Bashkirtseff, Berthe Morisot, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Barbara Hepworth, the volume includes material related to the work of amateur artists and women in ceramics and textiles. Cloth edition published in 1991.
Trade Review...exhilerating...to read so many first-person accounts by approximately 40 women artists...useful introductory essays. * Feminist Bookstore News *
...useful text... * Woman's Art Journal *
...undergraduates...will find this an insightful work. * CHOICE *
