Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world - whether willed or enforced - and of their engagement with the literature of gardening. Beg…
Værker af den italienske maler Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1638) og hans datter Artemisia (1593-ca. 1652)
From the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, to the photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, this survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design, and public protest, …
Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement
by Corby, Vanessa, Corby, Vanessa, Hesse, Eva
fromNew Encounters
Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterisations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowl…
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni M…