Title: Representing women /
Authors: Nochlin, Linda.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Thames and Hudson,
Physical description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women haunt nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western painting. This book brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on the subject as she considers works by Millet, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt and Kollwitz, among others." "In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history which rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians who investigate the work before their eyes while focussing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit."--Jacket.
Contents: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc art historian -- The myth of the woman warrior -- Géricault : the absence of women -- The image of the working woman -- Courbet's real allegory : rereading The painter's studio -- A house is not a home : Degas and the subversion of the family -- Mary Cassatt's modernity -- Body politics : Seurat's Poseuses.
Subject headings (LCSH): Painting, Modern--19th century.; Painting, Modern--20th century.; Women in art.