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"A provoking & rewarding text. Calling Pollock to his aid at every twist & turn in the vast labyrinth of modern American art, Mr. Ratcliff ... writes with an insight born of long personal experience, combining expert knowledge with a questioning eye." New York Times Book Review "Provocative ...

"A provoking & rewarding text. Calling Pollock to his aid at every twist & turn in the vast labyrinth of modern American art, Mr. Ratcliff ... writes with an insight born of long personal experience, combining expert knowledge with a questioning eye." New York Times Book Review "Provocative ... provides fresh perspective on modern American art." Publishers Weekly "In his earlier books about individual artists, & here, in this survey of the last fifty years of American art, Ratcliff displays an uncanny knack for matching words to images & abstractions." Booklist "Lively & compelling." Library Journal

"An interesting and original collection. A must for all those interested in women artists and the women who have written about them."--Linda Nochlin, author of "Representing Women

"Kristen Frederickson and Sarah Webb have provided us with a missing link, a truly feminist art history that connects ...

"An interesting and original collection. A must for all those interested in women artists and the women who have written about them."--Linda Nochlin, author of "Representing Women

"Kristen Frederickson and Sarah Webb have provided us with a missing link, a truly feminist art history that connects with the work done in the 1970s and thankfully ignores the 'post-feminist' hiatus. "Singular Women is a model for future scholarship on women's art. If only the books it inspires are as rigorous, vigorous, varied, and readable as this one."--Lucy Lippard, author of "The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art

"The most provocative, challenging, and intimate writing to appear in feminist art history since Linda Nochlin launched the field with her essay 'Why Are There No Great Women Artists?' Thirty years later there are both great women artists and great women writers. This book assembles some of the best and boldest among them. Not afraid to address the boring, the failed, the neglected, or the masterpiece, "Singular Women sets the standard for feminist art history of the twenty-first century."--Peggy Phelan, author of the survey essay in" Art and Feminism, ed. Helena Reckitt

"This important volume addresses the vexed question whether the traditional monograph, rightly under suspicion in recent years, can be reinvented to serve feminist art history well. Its excellent--and varied--essays answer with a confident and convincing affirmative, demonstrating how we can talk about women's art practice without abandoning the biographical and social stories that enable and illuminate it."--Janet Wolff, author of "Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism

"Contributes newunderstandings to the now familiar problems of writing biographies of artists and, in particular, writing about a woman artist. It re-inscribes the woman artist in the discourse while probing--through a variety of approaches--the possibi