Women Picturing Women

Selected from the rich holdings of the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, this title explores the common themes and complex visions that emerge when women depict other women. Providing a varied set of examples from the 17th century to the 1960s that speak to the unique and frequently underemphasised artistic lens through which women viewed their female peers, this title offers further scholarship on each artist and her work.Portraits and domestic scenes are often the vehicles through which these artists grappled with narratives found in religion, mythology or social critique, focusing on motifs of both intimacy and isolation in varying degrees. Artists include: Angelica Kauffman, Berthe Morisot, Jesse Tarbox Beals, Lilly Martin Spencer, Alice Neel, Diane Arbus and Sylvia Sleigh.
ISBN 9781646570218. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. hb. 156 pages. 105 colour ills. 22.9 x 26.7 cm.
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