This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America.
Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara Walker, Irish artist Alice Maher, British artists Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread, and the international performance group, moti roti.
Features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these artists.
Covers diverse media, from sculpture and painting through to photography,...
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America.
During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, whore, celebrity, muse, and creative agent, charting her important symbolic role in contemporary attempts to professionalize both the theatre and the practice of fine art. Gill Perry shows how artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hoppner or Lawrence produced complex images of female...
During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on ...
English country houses are full of portraits of family members, Kings and Queens, politicians, military figures and other well-known characters. We find these portraits in serried ranks in long galleries, placed high above the bookshelves in libraries, prominently displayed over fireplaces and in private apartments. They range from full-length paintings in oil by renowned artists to intimate pastels by amateurs; from busts displayed within the house to monuments located in the grounds. This collection of essays by scholars including Alison Yarrington, Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet...
English country houses are full of portraits of family members, Kings and Queens, politicians, military figures and other well-known characters. We fi...
