Art Talk: Conversations With 15 Women Artists

By Cindy Nemser

Book Overview

Interviews with 15 important women artists reveal insights on art and feminism in a book that "fills an important gap in contemporary art critical scholarship" (Howard Conant, New York University).... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064309835
• ISBN13: 9780064309837
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Many of these women artists are gone - so this is important...

I am working on a book about women artists in the 1930's to 1950's in NY - and USA in general... I would have liked to interview many of these artists in person. This is the next best thing. It even adds the benefit of having a woman interview these famous people; as woman artists questioned about the feminist issues of this time. Many of us are studying these dynamics currently and there are no expected responses from these women artists. Some knew they were climbing a steep hill and others ignored or accepted the situation as normal for the period. It is very eye-opening to discover the different ways women coped or dealt with the misogyny of this era. Many of the women artists of this era resisted the idea or bias about their being women, or were too busy focusing on their artistic efforts to give it more concern; as something that wasn't going to change anytime soon. I especially like the idea that the responses from these one-on-one interviews were conducted by a sophisticated and knowledgeable writer who knows the cultural problems women faced historically as artists in a dominate men's world. Editor/Author, Cindy Nemser did a great job gently prying as much information and pushing for the feminist angle in these interviews. I am primarily interested in the older women being interviewed in this book, but it was good to compare the generational differences that many of these women shared...