| Description |
328 pages : color illustrations ; 37 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
From cloister to court : Renaissance to rococo Italy -- Domestic preoccupations : Dutch and Flemish painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Virtue and virtuosity : academic traditions in French art of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries -- On the face of it : the British portrait tradition -- Slices of life : picturing lives and landscape -- American pioneers : expressing a new spirit -- Past perfect : the pre-Raphaelite aesthetic -- En plein air : the Impressionists and their circle -- Paris : the turn of the century -- Beyond Europe : the commonwealth of modernism -- Northern lights : painters of Scandinavia -- Independent expressions : a dilemma of autonomy -- Collective efforts : art and war in northern Europe -- Smashing the past, designing the future : from futurism to constructivism and beyond -- Complementary realities : early abstraction on two continents -- Dada and surrealism : reports from the unconscious -- Making gestures : abstract expressionism -- Essence matters : abstraction and nonobjective painting -- An art of one's own : Latin American painters and sculptors -- Figuring it out : twentieth-century representation -- And justice for all : taking on the culture coast to coast -- On and off the wall : reinventing the mainstream -- Moving heaven and earth : sculpture abstractions and environments -- Just folks : traditional art and artists. |
| Subject |
Women artists -- History.
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| ISBN |
0883633981 |
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