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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the fundamental role played by women in the development of abstract art.
Trade Review'As a survey and history of abstract art the book stands as something as complete as you could wish ... One has to be wary of describing books as ground-breaking, because the truth is they are usually built on work that has gone before and ride a rising tide. This is, however, a major contribution to art history in general and a neglected corner (if that’s the right word) in particular' - Art Book Review
'An alternative history of Abstract art' - Arts Society Review
Table of ContentsForeword by Serges Lasvignes
Preface by Bernard Blistene
Essays She Makes Abstraction, Christine Macel
Abstraction? Co-Creation?, Griselda Pollock
Women Artists and Abstract Photography, Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Stand Up Against, Right Up Against, Anne Montfort-Tanguy
Where Was Sisterhood?, Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Works 1. Art, Spiritualism and Theosophy
2. The Pioneers of Abstraction in Dance
3. Women in Vorticism
4. Women in the Russian Avant-Garde
5. Women at the Bauhaus
6. Microphotography, Pattern, Decoration, Abstraction
7. From Cercle et Carre to Abstraction-Creation
8. Creative Photography at the Texas Woman’s University
9. The Enduring Legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim
10. Finished Pictures, Polish, Candy: Women Artists of the New York School
11. Fibre Art, Soft Art
12. Eccentric Abstraction
13. Whose Voice? Women Film-Makers and Cinema History in the 1970s
14. Beyond Boundaries: Black Art in America, 1960-1980
15. The Abstract Concept of ‘Woman’: Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin
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