Title: Female gazes : seventy-five women artists /
Authors: Martin, Elizabeth, 1946-; Meyer, Vivian, 1958-
Publisher: Second Story Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Women artists North America Biography.; Women artists Europe Biography.; Art, Modern North America.; Art, European; Women in art.; Women artists Biography; Art, Modern
Abstract: An intriguing and unusual collection of biographies and art, Female Gazes is a popular introduction to the lives and work of some remarkable women artists from the Renaissance to the present. Vivid reproductions and commentary accompany the life stories of a diverse group of women from Canada, the United States and Europe.
Contents: Sofonisba Anguissola : Portrait of the artist's sister Minerva -- Artemisia Gentileschi : Judith and Holofernes -- Judith Leyster : The flute player -- Rachel Ruysch : Flower still life -- Françoise Duparc : Young woman mending -- Angelica Kauffmann : The artist hesitating between the arts of music and painting -- Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun : Self-portrait -- Susanna Moodie : Bouquet of garden flowers -- Anne Whitney : Charles Sumner -- Rosa Bonheur : The horse fair -- Hannah Maynard : Self-portrait -- Emily Mary Osborn : Nameless and friendless -- Berthe Morisot : Young girl by the window -- Mary Cassatt : The letter -- Edmonia Lewis : Old arrow maker -- Frances & Margaret Macdonald : Poster for the Institute of Fine Arts -- Suzanne Valadon : Adam and Eve -- Käthe Kollwitz : Solidarity--the propeller song -- Emily Carr : Forest, British Colombia -- Gwen John : A corner of the artist's room in Paris -- Meta Warrick Fuller : Talking Skull -- Vanessa Bell : Lytton Strachey -- Helen McNicoll : Under the shadow of the tent -- Natalia Goncharova : Linen -- Frances Loring : Furnace girl -- Florence Wyle : Noon hour -- Georgia O'Keefe : Yellow calla -- Dorothea Lange : Migrant mother, Nipomo, California -- Kay Sage : I saw three cities -- Paraskeva Clark : Petroushka -- Louise Nevelson : Mirror-shadow II -- Alice Neel : Margaret Evans pregnant -- Alexandra Luke : Surge into summer -- Isabel Bishop : Bootblack -- Barbara Hepworth : Single form (memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld) -- Pitseolak : Woman hiding from spirit -- Lois Mailou Jones : Les fétiches -- Lee Krasner : Cornucopia -- Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird -- Doris McCarthy : Iceberg fantasy #24 -- Agnes Martin : Falling blue -- Elizabeth Catlett : Sharecropper -- Daphne Odjig : Beauty in transition -- Gathie Falk : Theatre in black and white and colour : Alberta spruce and streamers -- Helen Frankenthaler : Before the caves -- Bessie Harvey : Tribal spirits.