More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling "Business of Bliss," it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful to behold. Research by "Craft Trends Magazine ...
One hundred years after his death, Robert Louis Stevenson--author of such classic novels as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--remains a fascinating figure. This major biography of the woman behind the genius--Stevenson's wife, Fanny--spent three months on the French bestseller lists and has already sold more than 80,000 copies.
Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers, as well a growing community of ...
From the classical to the contemporary, from impressionism to pop art, painters and sculptors from every era, every movement, and every country in the world are introduced in this superb series that brings children intimate portraits of the world's most celebrated artists and the fascinating times they lived in! Full-color reproductions included! ...
This volume uses works on paper to explore the career of feminist artist Judy Chicago. In 1970 Chicago launched the first feminist art program in the country, at Fresno State College in Fresno, California. She developed and championed an art that functions socially, that encourages an evocative relationship with a large public audience. Meaning ...
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America. It 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 ...
This cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Laura Prieto gives us a picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late 18th century through the 1930s. Prieto tracks the ...
Over 250 color images present the artwork of twenty talented contemporary female artists who have claimed the outsider art genre Lowbrow Art, once dominated by men, for their own. In the text, each artist's story is presented along with her work and essays from Chris Pfouts and Anthony Ausgang.
Modernist artist Elsie Driggs (1898-1992) is best known for her precisionist paintings of the 1920s that take their subject matter from the world of industry and engineering. Although most critics of the era described the precisionist vision as cool and dispassionate, it was the brooding, imaginative qualities of Driggs's industrial scenes that ...
Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, "Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art" addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of feminist art in the United States. From New York city to Southern California, Lisa Bloom ...
Brief biographies of a sculptor, weaver. photographer, artist, and dancers, including Louise Nevelson, Charlene Burningham, Cynthia Gregory, Barbara Morgan, Martha Graham, Judith Jamison, and Marie Burton.
The Victorian era provided few opportunities for women in the professional world. The American Arts and Crafts movement, which began in the late nineteenth century to promote handcraftsmanship over mass production, was a major factor in changing the status of women as professional workers. In Professional Pursuits, Catherine Zipf examines the ...
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