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Books on: famous women artists

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Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Book by Kristen Frederickson, Sarah E. Webb; University of California Press, 2003

Subjects:

Feminist Art Criticism, Women Artists--Biography--History And Criticism

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...The work of women artists is now documented...although there are famous women artists, a careful analysis...interpretation permit an artists work to be seen objectively...in retrieving the artist who is also a woman, but a rethinking...
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Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists

Book by Jontyle Theresa Robinson; Rizzoli International Publications, 1996

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African American Women Artists--Exhibitions, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States--Exhibitions

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...seminar. 38. Yellin, Women Sisters , pp. 10, 12...Frederick Douglass and Woman Suffrage", The Black...Lerner , ed., Black Women in White America: A...Rubinstein, American Women Artists from Early Indian Times...Pauline Hopkins, "Famous Women of the Negro Race...
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Art Talk: Conversations with 15 Women Artists

Book by Cindy Nemser; Icon Editions, 1995

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Women Artists--Interviews

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...N. Were you part of the famous Artists Club of the fifties? G.H...They werent used to young women going into that life. I lived...in my life did I consider a woman to be a fading waterlily...was a good occupation for a woman. It was a secure job and I...
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Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas

Book by Phoebe Farris; Greenwood Press, 1999

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Minority Women Artists--America--Biography

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...field hand, Jaune ordered the Famous Artists School correspondence course...was already an established artist, having her first solo show...influences were modern Indian artists Oscar Howe and Fritz Scholder...she collaborated with other artists, engineers, architects...collaborating with Indian artist James Luna to create a sitting...
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Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist

Book by Deborah Barker; Bucknell University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Aesthetics, American, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Art And Literature--United States, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Literature--United States, Women Artists In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...traditional patriarchal fears of women and femininity in his celebration...female forms, the range of famous historical, literary, and...the many books and essays on famous women that were popular in...art critics wrote essays on famous women.

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Journal Articles on: famous women artists

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Women Artists: Les Femmes Impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Berthe Morisot

Journal article by Mary Tompkins Lewis; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994

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Art exhibits, Books, Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926), Gonzales, Eva, Morisot, Berthe (1841-95), Visual artists, Women

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...campaign to gain access for women to the Ecole des Beaux...the presence of women as artists rather than subjects...province of the anonymous woman artist--the conservatives...opportunities for French women in all fields, but...coverage than the now famous Salon des Independants...
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Contemporary Women Artists in Ethiopia

Journal article by Makda Teklemichael; African Arts, Vol. 42, 2009

Subjects:

African art--Criticism and interpretation, African art--Exhibitions, Art, African--Criticism and interpretation, Art, African--Exhibitions, Ethiopian culture--Portrayals, Women artists--Criticism and interpretation, Women artists--Exhibitions

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...existence and success of women artists is closely tied to...which does not include women. In most cases, people...when they encounter a woman artist producing art within...contribution as a pioneering woman artist. "Such recognition...17) The young artist Merikokob Berhanu has...people are happy to see women making art and encouraging...them. Still, women artists in both contexts have...
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A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick's out of Bohemia and the Artists' Novel of the 1890s

Journal article by Donna Campbell; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 25, 2008

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Fosdick, Gertrude Christian--Criticism and interpretation, Fosdick, Gertrude Christian--Works, National identity--Portrayals, Out of Bohemia (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Sex (Psychology)--Portrayals, Sexuality--Portrayals, Women and literature, Women artists--Portrayals, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women in literature, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

...earlier novels about women artists, such as Elizabeth...recovered text by an unknown woman author and as a work...moves the figure of the woman in the Bohemian artists...the National Museum of Women in the Arts has no records...Dictionary of Women Artists provide basic information...she studied under the famous academicians William...increasing fame as an artist in burnt wood by creating...
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Cold War, Home Front: Australian Women Writers and Artists in the 1950s: Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture Association for Australian Literature Annual Conference, Melbourne, July 2001

Journal article by Susan Sheridan; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2002

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Australian literature--Authorship, Feminism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Green, Dorothy--Political activity, Women authors--Works, Women in war--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Works, Women's issues--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...was not `as women but as fellow-scholars and artists, comrades...the most famous woman intellectual...like the justly famous `Suburban Sonnet...political, and a woman who attacked...certainly not an artist. It was not...the most part, women writers used...which recognised women as fellow citizens...discussion no woman except Katharine...concerns of these artists were not readily...
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Navigating the Labyrinth of Silence: Feminist Artists in Mexico

Journal article by Edward J. Mccaughan; Social Justice, Vol. 34, 2007

Subjects:

Feminism and the arts--Analysis, Feminism--Influence, Women artists--Social aspects

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...with five other women artists for International...is a graphic artist, sculptor, and...established herself as an artist when she met and...For many of the women, however, the...the individual artists worked against...Negation of Colored Women Artists." Hilary Robinson...the Death of the Artist." Hilary Robinson...

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Magazine Articles on: famous women artists

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The Most Famous Woman You've Never Heard Of: ALISON MCMAHAN ON ALICE GUY BLACHE

Magazine article by Alison Mcmahan; Artforum International, Vol. 48, November 2009

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Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Artists--Works, Blache, Alice Guy--Criticism and interpretation, Blache, Alice Guy--Works

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The Most Famous Woman Youve Never Heard Of: ALISON MCMAHAN...by Alison McMahan IN 1894, A YOUNG WOMAN named Alice Guy was hired as a secretary...Jersey, in 1912. This made her the first woman to own her own studio and studio plant...
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The Trouble with Frida Kahlo: Uncomfortable Truths about This Season's Hottest Female Artist

Magazine article by Stephanie Mencimer; Washington Monthly, Vol. 34, June 2002

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Artists--Biography, Kahlo, Frida--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Hayden Herreras famous 1983 biography...of a bleeding woman lying on a bed...her. Chicano artists in California...Japanese performance artist and drag queen...Just Like a Woman The art establishments...given talented women artists wings of wax...is the first woman artist in the history...on to become famous as an artist...
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Elizabeth Catlett: Legendary Artist Is Still Creating and Living Life on Her Own Terms

Magazine article by Lynn Norment; Ebony, Vol. 61, March 2006

Subjects:

African American women artists--Biography, Catlett, Elizabeth--Biography

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...sometimes Mexican) woman and depicting the...ranks of American artists, and among the...African-American artists. "I think people...create," the artist says while sipping...important, to be famous. People who are...including The Black Woman (1946-47) series...working poor Black women in Harlem and the...Francisco Mora, an artist she describes as...both were young artists working at the...
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Kara Walker: Romance, Race, Slavery and Sex Influence Celebrated Visual Artist's Work

Magazine article by Cheryl R. Riley; Ebony, Vol. 62, June 2007

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African American women artists--Biography, African American women artists--Works, Walker, Kara Elizabeth--Biography, Walker, Kara Elizabeth--Works

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...exhibition--a play on the famous Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone...outlines. Like most contemporary artists, Kara does not limit herself to one medium. She is a video artist and printmaker; she draws...June she will be one of the artists representing America in Italy...her. Cheryl R. Riley is an artist and furniture designer whose...
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The Makeup Artist: CoverGirl Bets That Soccer Moms Will Find Something in Common with Its Next "Face"-A Rich, Famous Gay Talk-Show Host

Magazine article by Jason Lamphier; The Advocate, November 4, 2008

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Cover Girl Cosmetics--Advertising, DeGeneres, Ellen--Endorsements, Television talk show hosts--Endorsements, Toiletries industry--Advertising

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The Makeup Artist: CoverGirl Bets That...Next "Face"-A Rich, Famous Gay Talk-Show Host...chosen because shes a woman shoppers "relate to...star married to another woman? "Ellen is smart...These are attributes women aspire to have, regardless...yet. This is the same woman who suffered an unforgettable...

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Newspaper Articles on: famous women artists

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ART OF THE IMPROBABLE; Anne Redpath Was the Key Figure in the Edinburgh School and Opened the Door for Women Artists - and Though a Presbyterian, Her Devotion to Roman Catholic Architecture Defined Her Work

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 17, 2010

Subjects:

Architecture, Michie, David, Painters, Painters (Artists), Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Door for Women Artists - and Though...finest female artist worked feverishly...year-old artist in his Edinburgh...the first woman to be admitted...become equally famous for her still...and other women who wanted...influential Scottish artists of the 20th...Society of Women Artists...the first woman academician...the French artists Henri Matisse...times. The artist also become...
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Blonde Ambition; Artist Alison Jackson Is Used to Evoking Surprise - with Her Doubles of Famous People, from Camilla to the Beckhams, Behaving in Unexpected Ways. but Even She Was Taken Aback by the Reactions to Her Changed Hair Colour

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 20, 2007

Subjects:

Artists, Celebrities

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Blonde Ambition; Artist Alison Jackson Is Used...with Her Doubles of Famous People, from Camilla...hilarious. I disagree that women are more wary of blondes...the corner"? As an artist I like to play with identities...incongruity of the concept. Women tend to be dark-haired...
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A PISSARRO ORIGINAL; When Your Great-Grandfather Was a Famous Impressionist Painter, It's Hard Not to Follow in the Family Tradition. but Artist Lelia Pissarro's Perspective Changed after She Was Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and Now Her Style Is All Her Own

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 24, 2006

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Artists--Health aspects, Breast cancer--Health aspects, Teenage girls--Health aspects

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...Great-Grandfather Was a Famous Impressionist Painter...Family Tradition. but Artist Lelia Pissarros Perspective...painting on the theme of woman. Her experience of losing...and how a shoe makes a woman walk. They are highly...lot about the kind of woman who wears them. Lelia...series as portraits of women, but without the body...
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Making the Most of Real Women; CELEBRITY Make-Up Artist Daniel Sandler Chose a North East Spa to Showcase His Award-Winning Cosmetics Range. LIZ LAMB Meets Him

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 12, 2011

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Artists, Cosmetics

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...CELEBRITY Make-Up Artist Daniel Sandler Chose...wearable looks for real women. If you want to hide...shoot. But it is real women who can really benefit...of unfair pressure on women of all ages to look as...What I believe is that a woman can only be happy and...up Studio in the most famous department store in the...
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I'm Just a Seedy Old Perv, Says Vettriano; Intimate: Vettriano's A Very Married Woman Controversial: A Typically Sexually-Charged Painting by Artist Jack Vettriano, Inset

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 3, 2009

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Artists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Vettrianos A Very Married Woman Controversial: A Typically...Charged Painting by Artist Jack Vettriano, Inset...Nicholson. His most famous work, The Singing Butler...When he became rich and famous, his fixation with the...such as A Very Married Woman, featuring a half...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famous women artists

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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the influence of artists in Dusseldorf...known American artists as Willard Metcalf...painted by several artist-illustrators...for the American artist. Early in the century...Americans in the famous Armory Show of 1913...by such American artists as Arthur B. Davies...The ascendancy of women and minority artists...
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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...native painter. The famous illustrated scroll of...the features of men and women reflects the extreme...Kamakura sculptor. These artists imbued their works with...The Kano family of artists succeeded in fusing the...P. Fister, Japanese Women Artists, Sixteen Hundred...
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Comic Strip

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tintin, created by the Belgian artist Herge (Georges Remi) c.1930, emerged...adventures of Fritz the Cat, his most famous character, attracted a limited but...Superman, Captain Marvel, and Wonder Woman, was revived in later strips with...1976, repr. 1984); T. Robbins, Women and the Comics (1985); R. Marschall, Americas Great Comic Strip Artists (1989); B. Blackbeard, R. F...
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African Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...people of W Mali are famous for their striking wooden...show the importance of women. The Baule of Cote dIvoire...cultural continuity. The artists of Dahomey produced appliqued...polychromed. The world-famous Ife portrait heads in...notice c.1905, when artists began to recognize the...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...clubs. One of the most famous of the latter was the...Blake is unique: poet, artist, artisan, revolutionist...the natural world, artists and intellectuals sought...The intellectuals and artists of the age had to deal...the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and...prolific Anthony Trollope , famous for sequences of related...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...

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