Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of ‘women’s work’.
 
In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts – including textiles and ceramics – have been separated from the ‘high arts’ of painting and sculpture and deemed to be more suitable for women. Artists began to reclaim and redefine these materials and methods, energizing them with expressions of identity and imagination. 

Women’s Work tells the story of this radical change, highlighting some of the modern and contemporary artists who dared to defy this hierarchy and who, through, experimentation and invention, transformed their medium.

The work of these women has helped underscore the ongoing value of these art forms within the history of art, championing ‘women’s work’ as powerful mediums worthy of celebration.

With biographical entries on each artist featured, as well as beautiful images of their artworksWomen's Work raises up the work of these visionary and groundbreaking artists, telling their stories and examining their artistic legacies.
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Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of ‘women’s work’.
 
In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts – including textiles and ceramics – have been separated from the ‘high arts’ of painting and sculpture and deemed to be more suitable for women. Artists began to reclaim and redefine these materials and methods, energizing them with expressions of identity and imagination. 

Women’s Work tells the story of this radical change, highlighting some of the modern and contemporary artists who dared to defy this hierarchy and who, through, experimentation and invention, transformed their medium.

The work of these women has helped underscore the ongoing value of these art forms within the history of art, championing ‘women’s work’ as powerful mediums worthy of celebration.

With biographical entries on each artist featured, as well as beautiful images of their artworksWomen's Work raises up the work of these visionary and groundbreaking artists, telling their stories and examining their artistic legacies.
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Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art

Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art

by Ferren Gipson
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art

Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art

by Ferren Gipson

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Overview

This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of ‘women’s work’.
 
In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts – including textiles and ceramics – have been separated from the ‘high arts’ of painting and sculpture and deemed to be more suitable for women. Artists began to reclaim and redefine these materials and methods, energizing them with expressions of identity and imagination. 

Women’s Work tells the story of this radical change, highlighting some of the modern and contemporary artists who dared to defy this hierarchy and who, through, experimentation and invention, transformed their medium.

The work of these women has helped underscore the ongoing value of these art forms within the history of art, championing ‘women’s work’ as powerful mediums worthy of celebration.

With biographical entries on each artist featured, as well as beautiful images of their artworksWomen's Work raises up the work of these visionary and groundbreaking artists, telling their stories and examining their artistic legacies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780711264656
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Publication date: 07/12/2022
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 7.75(w) x 9.75(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Ferren Gipson is an art historian, writer and presenter. She is the host and producer of the Art Matters podcast, a doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London and the author of The Ultimate Art Museum (Phaidon).
 

Table of Contents

Gee’s Bend Quilters
Maria Martinez
Elsa Schiaparelli
Anni Albers
Lucie Rie
Lenore Tawney
Dorothea Tanning
Louise Bourgeois
Rut Bryk
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Miriam Schapiro
Yayoi Kusama
Faith Ringgold
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Olga de Amaral
Sheila Hicks
Eva Hesse
Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly
Judy Chicago
Judith Scott
Annette Messager
Isabelle de Borchgrave
Dindga McCannon
Cecilia Vicuña
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Polly Apfelbaum
Sarah Lucas
Yin Xiuzhen
Simone Leigh
Billie Zangewa
Otobong Nkanga
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Sarah Zapata
Tschabalala Self
Hannah Hill
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Bibliography 
Index 
Picture credits 
Acknowledgements
 
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