Miriam Schapiro
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780810943773
Subjects: Feminism; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; 20th century; Biography & Autobiography; Women And Art; United States; Art & Art Instruction; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art; Fine Arts; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Individual Artist; Art / History / American; Schapiro, Miriam,; Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1923-; Artists; Biography; Feminism in art
Description: "A pioneering force in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) dared to challenge the marginalized role of women in the art world by creating a visual vocabulary to express women's experiences.

In this illustrated book, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, acclaimed art historian Thalia Gouma-Peterson traces the trajectory of Schapiro's career over five decades, from her gestural canvases of the 1950s, to her self-exploratory "Shrines" and geometric abstractions of the 1960s, to her large-scale femmages (feminist-oriented collages of paint and fabric) of the 1970s and 1980s, and finally to her autobiographical figural compositions of the 1980s and 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.