Central to Their Lives
Subtitle: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781611179545
Subjects: Art, american; Women artists; Art and society; Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions; Art, modern, 19th century
Description: "In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted"--