Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition

Press Release by Lenore Chinn

"Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition" by Whitney Chadwick to be published September 10, 2012
I am happy to announce that I am included in Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition by Whitney Chadwick to be published September 10, 2012.

The cover of Women, Art and Society Book Description
Publication Date:
September 30, 2012
ISBN-10:
0500204055
ISBN-13:
978-0500204054
Edition:
Fifth Edition

The definitive work on the subject, mapping a complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today.

This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who “transcended” their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick’s survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. This revised edition features a new final chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s. It is brought up to date with discussions of some of the most significant women artists to have emerged in recent years, including Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles. 332 illustrations, 124 in color

Here is more information on the project from Thames and Hudson.

First published in 1991 and soon to be in its fifth edition, Women, Art, and Society by Professor Whitney Chadwick is one of the most acclaimed titles in Thames & Hudson’s celebrated World of Art series. This groundbreaking book, which challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art, has been used to teach the history of women artists to hundreds of thousands of students the world over. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick’s survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. For the new edition, the author considers the enduring legacy of feminism on recent work and on art history, while also addressing the closely related issues of ethnicity, class, religion and sexuality.

My work will be included in the new introduction of the book, along with pieces by Jenny Holzer, Rachel Harrison, Emily Wardill, Sheila Hicks, Orlan, Lu Qing and Berry Bickle, amongst others.

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