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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456388003321

Titolo

Singular women : writing the artist / / Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

0-520-93619-1

1-59734-900-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations ; [2003]

Altri autori (Persone)

FredericksonKristen <1965->

WebbSarah E

Disciplina

701/.18/082

Soggetti

Feminist art criticism

Women artists - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: histories, silences and stories -- Artemisia's trial by cinema -- A  light in the galaxy : Judith Leyster -- "So what are you working on?" Categorizing the exceptional woman -- Mother land missed: the becoming landscapes of Clementia, Viscountess Hawarden, and Sally Mann -- "A sermon in patchwork": new light on Harriet Powers -- A sermon in patchwork -- Two ways of thinking about Mary Cassatt -- Florine Stettheimer: becoming herself -- Writing about forgotten women artists: the rediscovery of Jo Nivison Hopper -- Designing woman: writing about Eleanor Raymond -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Subjectivity, (auto)biography, and the "Artist Named Pereira" -- Codex Spero: rethinking the monograph as feminist -- At last! A great woman artist:  writing about Carolee Schneemann's epistolary practice -- Epilogue: mark making, writing, and erasure -- Bibliography -- About the contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.