Women, Art, and Society(5th Edition) by WhitneyChadwick 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 WhitneyChadwick 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 WhitneyChadwick 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 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 WhitneyChadwick 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 WhitneyChadwick 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."
"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 ..."
"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 WhitneyChadwick 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 WhitneyChadwick, 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 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 ..."
"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 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 WhitneyChadwick, 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 ..."
"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 WhitneyChadwick 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"
"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 ..."