Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Bys: Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians--all of them women--probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach affects the way in which research progresses and stories are told. These thirteen essays on specific artists, from the Renaissance to the present day, address their work and history to examine how each has been inserted into or left out of the history of art. The authors go beyond an analysis of the past to propose new strategies for considering the contributions of women to the visual arts, strategies that take into account the idiosyncratic, personal, and limited rhetoric that confines all writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520231651
• ISBN13: 9780520231658
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

So inspiring!

I have been a painter since the 1960s. As a contemporary female artist, it is so important to learn about the struggles so many female artists have experienced, and this book showed me how artists were able to be noticed and admired, throughout history. The various essays have many different voices, and the introduction really set the tone for a very readable but informative book. I highly recommend it!