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Books by Whitney Chadwick






Women, Art, and Society(5th Edition)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 536 Pages, Published 2012 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20405-4, ISBN: 0-500-20405-5

"The definitive work on the subject, mapping a complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who “transcended” their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick’s survey reexamines the works thems ..."






Significant Others
Creativity and Intimate Partnership
by Isabelle De Courtivron, Professor Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29381-2, ISBN: 0-500-29381-3

"Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individuals lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg ..."






Women, Art, and Society(6th Edition)
(World of Art)
by Whitney Chadwick, Flavia Frigeri
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2020 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20456-6, ISBN: 0-500-20456-X

"A new edition of the groundbreaking book by Whitney Chadwick maps the complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today.Art historian Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who “transcended” their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to ..."






Twilight Visions(1st Edition)
Surrealism and Paris
by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelley, Whitney Chadwick, Colin Jones, Susan Edwards, Julia Kelly
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-27127-2, ISBN: 0-520-27127-0

"Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in "Twilight Visions", the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse ..."






Farewell to the Muse(1st Edition)
Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
by Whitney Chadwick
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-23968-1, ISBN: 0-500-23968-1

"A fascinating examination of the ambitions and friendships of a talented group of midcentury women artistsFarewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five female friendships a ..."






Women, Art, and Society(4th Edition)
(World of Art)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2007 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20393-4, ISBN: 0-500-20393-8

""A wave of new scholarship floods her text….Chadwick opens up whole new ways of thinking about familiar images."—Women's Art Journal This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick's survey r ..."






Amazons in the Drawing Room(1st Edition)
The Art of Romaine Brooks
by Whitney Chadwick, Joe Lucchesi, Romaine Brooks, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Nancy Risque Rohrbach
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22567-1, ISBN: 0-520-22567-8

"Amazons in the Drawing Room presents a comprehensive and definitive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, reproducing for the first time in color thirty-four of the forty nudes and portraits she painted, as well as thirty-seven automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the seventeenth century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporar ..."






Women, Art, and Society(2nd Edition)
(World of Art)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1997 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20293-7, ISBN: 0-500-20293-1

"A reappraisal of the position and work of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the way in which women's work has been perceived in the history of Western art - often in direct reference to gender - and re-examines the works themselves. Revisions and new illustrations bring this volume up-to-date, with an additional chapter focusing on issues of identity, class, race and sexuality, many of which are addressed in ..."






Women, Art, and Society(1st Edition)
(World of Art)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1990 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20241-8, ISBN: 0-500-20241-9

"The place of women in the history of Western art remains controversial. In this brilliant and eagerly awaited study, Chadwick explores the issues relating to the conditions under which women have worked as artists from the Middle Ages to the present. Illustrated."






Significant Others(Updated)
Creativity & Intimate Partnership
by Whitney Chadwick, Isabelle De Courtivron
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1996 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27874-1, ISBN: 0-500-27874-1

"Paperback. Pub Date: 1996 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Focusing on artist and writer couples. Who have shared both sexual and creative bonds First Quotation 13 of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions about creativity in this series of highly original essays. Among those examined are Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. L ..."






Significant Others(1st Edition)
Creativity and Intimate Partnership
by Whitney Chadwick, Isabelle De Courtivron, Diego Rivera, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Frida Kahlo
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-01566-7, ISBN: 0-500-01566-X

"Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally described creativity as an extraordinary individual's lone struggle for self-expression. Now, thirteen of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions in a highly original and revealing series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and artistic bonds, combining biography with evaluation of each partner's ..."






Farewell to the Muse
Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism (Paperback or Softback)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29626-4, ISBN: 0-500-29626-X

"Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the front line."






Women, Art, and Society(3rd Edition)
(World of Art)
by Whitney Chadwick, Bazin G.
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2002 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20354-5, ISBN: 0-500-20354-7

"This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, are exceptions who "transcended" their sex in achieving major works of art. In fact, many other women have produced paintings, sculptures, and crafts since the Middle Ages, and have been neglected. Whitney Chadwick provides much more than an alternative canon of women artists: she reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which ..."






Amazons in the Drawing Room
The Art of Romaine Brooks
by Whitney Chadwick, Joe Lucchesi, Romaine Brooks, Nancy Risque Rohrbach, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22565-7, ISBN: 0-520-22565-1

"Amazons in the Drawing Room presents a comprehensive and definitive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, reproducing for the first time in color thirty-four of the forty nudes and portraits she painted, as well as thirty-seven automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the seventeenth century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her ..."






Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement(Reprint)
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1991 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27622-8, ISBN: 0-500-27622-6

"This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement."






The Modern Woman Revisited(1st Edition)
Paris Between the Wars
by Whitney Chadwick, Tirza True Latimer
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3292-9, ISBN: 0-8135-3292-2

"The contributions of female artists to the development of literary and artistic modernism in early twentieth century France remain poorly understood. It was during this period that a so-called “modern woman” began occupying urban spaces associated with the development of modern art and modernism’s struggles to define subjectivities and sexualities.  Whereas most studies of modernism’s formal innovations and its encouragement of ar ..."






Mirror Images(1st Edition)
Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation
by Whitney Chadwick, Dawn Ades
Paperback, 207 Pages, Published 1998 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53157-3, ISBN: 0-262-53157-7

""Mirror Images is a welcome successor to Whitney Chadwick's significant work on the hitherto neglected history of women and surrealism. An impressive list of contributors explores the byways, bringing this tragic, funny, and engrossing story up to recent times." -- Lucy Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a sig ..."






Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls(1st Edition)
by Whitney Chadwick, Girls Guerilla, The Guerrilla Girls
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1995 by Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095088-0, ISBN: 0-06-095088-9

"Fifty posters and a self-interview augment documentation of ten years of the hit-and-run feminist campaign against sexism, racism, and elitism in the art world and in our culture at large. Original. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour."






Myth in Surrealist Painting, 1929-39(Illustrated)
Dali, Ernst, Masson (Studies in the fine arts : The avant-garde)
by Whitney Chadwick
Hardcover, 245 Pages, Published 1980 by Umi Research Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-8357-1057-2, ISBN: 0-8357-1057-2

", xv, 245 pages, contains 101 black and white images, Studies in Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde series No.1"






Bent(1st Edition)
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art
by Whitney Chadwick, Jesper Just, Annika Larsson, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Annica Karlsson Rixon
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2006 by San Francisco State University
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98613-5, ISBN: 0-295-98613-1

"In February 2006, San Francisco State University's College of Creative Arts hosted an exhibition of contemporary Scandinavian art dealing with themes of gender and sexuality. This catalog showcases images from the photography, video, and film of the four artists who participated: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jesper Just, Annika Larsson, and Annica Karlsson Rixon. The volume also features commentary by professors Whitney Chadwick (San Francisco St ..."



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