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 Africa:
Women's Art, Women's Lives - Publisher's
Marketing: "In Africa, women's passion to
create is evident during times of peace as well as war,
under favorable circumstances as well as the most difficult
and dangerous imaginable. Their media of expression
can be naturally derived or imported. It can vary from
monumental stone sculpture to intricate beadwork, or
from painting with mud to oil and acrylic. The passion
to decorate is evident in daily life from the designs
applied to the smallest clay bowls, to the sturdy mud
walls of their compounds where women give birth or see
life pass away. These decorations are frequently symbolic
and the motifs can please as well as reinforce shared
community values. Across the African continent, from
Timbuktu, Mali to Harare, Zimbabwe or Asmara, Eritrea,
whether women weave, sew, sketch, paint, create fabric
applique or stone sculptures, their art work often incorporates
the duality of myth and reality as they express their
hopes, fears, humor, and frustrations.
Africa: Women's Art, Women's Lives is based upon
a series of adventures to Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo,
Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and Eritrea from 1990 to 1994.
It is about a process of interacting with African
women from the perspective of a Western artist and
teacher, capable of enjoying their work and appreciating
the diverse personal, historical, and cultural circumstances
that nurtured their creativity."
Call number: OPC: N7391.65 .L34 1997
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 Art
Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists by
Cindy Nemser
Call number: PAL: 709.22,N436 |
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 Creating
Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women
Artists - Publisher's
Marketing: "Creating Their Own Image marks
the first comprehensive history of African-American
women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using
an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans
in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa
E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of
important works--many of which deliberately challenge
these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel,
the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting
a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in
its scope and ambition. In these lavishly illustrated
pages, some of which feature images
never before published, we learn of the efforts of
Elizabeth Keckley, fashion designer to Mary Todd Lincoln;
the acclaimed sculptor Edmonia Lewis, internationally
renowned for her neoclassical works in marble; and
the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and her innovative
teaching techniques. We meet
Laura Wheeler Waring who portrayed women of color
as members of a socially elite class in stark contrast
to the prevalent images of compliant maids, impoverished
malcontents, and exotics "others" that proliferated
in the inter-war period. We read of the painter Barbara
Jones-Hogu's collaboration on
the famed Wall of Respect, even as we view a rare
photograph of Hogu in the process of painting the
mural. Farrington expertly guides us through the fertile
period of the Harlem Renaissance and the "New
Negro Movement," which produced an entirely new
crop of artists who consciously imbued their work
with a social and political agenda, and through the
tumultuous, explosive years of the civil rights movement.
Drawing on revealing interviews with numerous contemporary
artists, such as Betye Saar, FaithRinggold, Nanette
Carter, Camille Billops, Xenobia Bailey, and many
others, the second half of
Creating Their Own Image probes more recent stylistic
developments, such as abstraction, conceptualism,
and post-modernism, never losing sight of the struggles
and challenges that have consistently influenced this
body of work. Weaving together an expansive collection
of artists, styles, and
periods, Farrington argues that for centuries African-American
women artists have created an alternative vision of
how women of color can, are, and might be represented
in American culture. From utilitarian objects such
as quilts and baskets to a wide array of fine arts,
Creating Their Own Image
serves up compelling evidence of the fundamental human
need to convey one's life, one's emotions, one's experiences,
on a canvas of one's own making."
Call number: SAC: N6538.N5 F27 2005 |
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Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait -
Publisher's Marketing:
"Published here in its entirety for the first
time, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents
the last ten years of her turbulent life. This passionate,
often surprising, intimate record, kept under lock
and key for some forty years in Mexico, reveals many
new dimensions in the complex persona of this remarkable
Mexican artist. Covering the years 1944-54, the 170-page
journal contains Frida's thoughts, poems, and dreams,
and reflects her stormy relationship with her husband,
Diego Rivera, Mexico's most famous artist. The seventy
watercolor illustrations in the journal - some lively
sketches, several elegant self-portraits, others complete
paintings - offer insights into her creative process,
and show her frequently using the journal to work
out pictorial ideas for her canvases."
Call number: SAC: ND259.K33 A2 1995 |
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Gallagher
Call number: OPC: N6537.G355 A4 2001 |
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 Frida
Kahlo: A Modern Master - Publisher's
Marketing: "Mexican painter Firda Kahlo
first began to paint her brilliantly colored, highly
stylized works, while recovering from an auto accident.
Encouraged by muralist Diego Rivera, whom she later
married, she produced more than 200 paintings that
speak directly to contemporary feminist issues. Though
her work was often overlooked during her lifetime,
Kahlo is now ranked among the great masters of the
twentieth century. This volume chronicles Kahlo's
life and work with archival photographs and full-color
illustrations of her greatest paintings."
Call number: SAC: ND259.K33 H37 2006 |
 Frida
Kahlo: The Paintings - Publisher's
Marketing: "In small, stunningly rendered
self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself
cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized
on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted
heart.
Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject
matter that one art critic suggested the walls of
an exhibition be covered with asbestos.
In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera
brings together numerous paintings and sketches by
the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with
explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's
life and their meaning for her work. Included among
the illustrations are more than eighty full-color
paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures
and line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known
works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The
Two Fridas, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope,
The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford
Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too,
are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her
world that help to illuminate the various stages of
her life."
Call number: SAC: ND259.K33 H4 2002
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 Margrethe
Mather & Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Margrethe Mather has been remembered mostly
through the commentary of fellow photographer Edward
Weston, who referred to her as "the first important
person" in his life. In fact, Mather was probably
the greatest influence on the development of Weston's
early career. They first met in 1913 and soon developed
a close relationship, eventually working together
as full-fledged artistic partners and even co-signing
the photographs they produced. Weston was also madly
in love with Mather, and the two engaged in a brief
affair during his first marriage. This book, which
features work by both artists, chronicles their twelve-year
association and sheds light on Mather, whose artistry,
sexual identity, and mysterious past were overshadowed
by the massive reputation of Edward Weston and his
subsequent association with Tina Modotti."
Call number: OPC: TR140.M353 W83 2001 |
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Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women - Publisher's
Marketing: "During the 1870s and 1880s,
a loose group of French artists, including Pissarro,
Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subject
matter that challenged the art prompted by the Academie
Francaise and the Salons where "official"
assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed.
What has been called "the revolutionary nature
of the Impressionist enterprise" emerged from political
radicalism, belief in science and individualism, and
a view of art true to modern life and to immediate visual
perception. In all these respects, Impressionism initiated
the radical tendencies of modern art.
Today the revolutionary aims of Impressionist artists
are generally overlooked. Impressionist art has been
marketed more successfully than any other style: the
price of Impressionist paintings surpasses that of
the Old Masters, exhibitions draw blockbuster crowds,
and books and mass reproductions are ubiquitous.
In her perceptive new survey, Belinda Thomson challenges
both sentimentalized and simplistic views of Impressionism.
Drawing upon recently discovered documents -- critical
reviews and letters between artists, writers, and
dealers -- she illuminates the thinking and the personal
lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors
and experiences that allowed Impressionism to develop
when it did. She investigates the family background
of the Impressionists, the importance of the art market
and collecting, and the influence of the critical
reception to their exhibitions."
Call number: SAC: ND237.C3 P65 1998
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Cassatt: Paintings and Prints
Call number: SAC: ND237.C3 G47 1980 |
 Miriam
Schapiro - Publisher's
Marketing: "A pioneering force in the feminist
art movement the 1970s, Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) is
an internationally renowned artist. In this, the only
comprehensive work on Schapiro, feminist art historian
Thalia Gouma-Peterson traces Schapiro's career from
her early gestural canvases to her legendary collaborations
with other women artists to her femmages (feminist-oriented
collages) to her tributes to female artists of the past.
Best known for her large heart -- and fan-shaped
canvases layered with fabric and paint, Schapiro helped
launch the Pattern and Decoration movement of the
1970s and '80s and developed a richly decorative style
that has influenced a generation of younger artists.
Noted scholar Linda Nochlin contributes an insightful
foreword, while Gouma-Peterson draws from Schapiro's
writings to convey the artist's reflections on art,
art history, and the feminist movement."
Call number: OPC: N6537.S34 G68 1999
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American Women Artists - Publisher's
Marketing: "At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor
Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some
of the leading visual artists in the nation, including
Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler,
Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting
portraits led to a book as significant and exciting
as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new
generation of women -- including Kiki Smith and Julie
Taymor -- and a new introduction to her landmark entry
in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status
as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first
century."
Call number: SAC: N6512 M78 2000 |
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Portrait
of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White
Call number: SAC: TR 140 .B6 A3 1963 |
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Sarah
Charlesworth: A Retrospective by Sarah Charlesworth
Call number: OPC: TR654.C475 S58 1997 |
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Through
the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist
by Judy Chicago
Call number: PAL: ND237.C492 A28 1975 |
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 What
Remains - Publisher's
Marketing: "Internationally acclaimed
photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation
on mortality."
Call number: OPC: TR654 .M32352 2003 |
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Women,
Art, and Society - Publisher's
Marketing: "The place of women in the
history of Western art remains controversial. In this
brilliant and eagerly awaited study, Chadwick explores
the issues relating to the conditions under which
women have worked as artists from the Middle Ages
to the present. Illustrated."
Call number: PAL: N8354 .C48 1990
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 Women
Artists - Publisher's Marketing:
"The achievements of many women in the arts have,
until recently, been downplayed or ignored. Spanning
six centuries and hundreds of women, Women Artists presents
a wealth of information on the subject, with more than
300 reproductions of works by extraordinary female artists,
from pre-Renaissance times to the present.
Margaret Barlow's informative and well-researched
text highlights the lives and accomplishments of both
famous and lesser-known women who, despite societal
pressures and restrictions, pursued successful careers
in art through the ages, including Judith Leyster,
Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Emily Mary Osborn,
Kathe Kollwitz, Angelica Kauffmann, Lilly Martin Spencer,
Paula Modershohn-Becker, and scores of others. Also
included here are journal entries, letters, and excerpts
from autobiographies of several women artists -- fascinating
for the light they shed on how these women perceived
their life and work."
Call number: PAL: N8354 .B37 1999 OVRSZ
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