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Identity unknown : rediscovering seven American women artists
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Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten woman artists: Louise Nevelson, Gertrude Abercrombie, Lois Mailou Jones, Ree Morton, Joan Brown, Christina Ramberg, and Lenore Tawney. These women fought...
Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten woman artists: Louise Nevelson, Gertrude Abercrombie, Lois Mailou Jones, Ree Morton, Joan Brown, Christina Ramberg, and Lenore Tawney. These women fought to be treated the same as male artists, to be judged by their work, not their gender or appearance. Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects -- not makers -- of art--
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- Creator
- Donna Seaman
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- Language
- English
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- New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, 2017
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- xxiii, 455 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781620407585, 1620407582, 9781620407592, 1620407590
- OCLC
- ocn953576480
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-437) and index.
- Introduction : telling the stories of seven artists -- The empress of in-between : Louise Nevelson -- Girl Searching : Gertrude Abercrombie -- Behind the masks : Loïs Mailou Jones -- "The rebellious bravo" : Ree Morton -- Swimming in light : Joan Brown -- Freeze and melt : Christina Ramberg -- All of a piece : Lenore Tawney -- Coda : perpetual rediscovery
Subjects
- Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988.
- Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977.
- Jones, Lois Mailou.
- Morton, Ree, 1936-1977.
- Brown, Joan, 1938-1990.
- Ramberg, Christina.
- Tawney, Lenore.
- Women artists -- United States -- Biography.
- Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Women artists -- United States -- Biography.
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