Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

by Gina Strumwasser

Book Overview

Although women painters and sculptors have often been the focus of academic research, they have not been fully integrated into traditional lower-division art history surveys. Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe celebrates women who met the challenge of being female professionals and succeeded as artists at a time when such accomplishments were not expected or encouraged. Concentrating on social history as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631890239
• ISBN13: 9781631890239
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"