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1	Women, Art & Society more books like this by Whitney Chadwick add to wishlist This groundbreaking book challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who 'transcended' their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Great American Pin-Up more books like this by Dr. Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel add to wishlist This illustrated text tells the story of the American pin-up as a genre as utterly American as the paintings of Edward Hopper. It describes the genre's origins and development, showcasing the most important artists. see all copies from $9.86! new only from $33.00! \| first editions
3	How to Draw Fantasy Females: Create Sexy Cyberpunks, Seductive Supergirls, and Raunchy Action Heroines more books like this by Chris Patmore add to wishlist Graphic artists who open this scintillating tutorial discover the beauty secrets of cartoon bombshells, then learn how to give them active roles in stories. Step-by-step illustrations show female anatomy and proportion, ways to render poses and body shapes, and methods to exaggerate or simplify female shapes for special effects. Artists learn to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| SVS
4	Henri Matisse: A Retrospective more books like this by John Elderfield add to wishlist Lavishly produced in oversize format, here is the complete illustrated catalogue of a landmark new exhibition devoted to the artist--the largest ever assembled--to be held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from September through January. Includes biographical notes, a chronology, and introductions to each major period of Matisse's career. 320 ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
5	Varga more books like this by Tom Robotham add to wishlist see all copies from $7.81! new only from $51.98! \| first editions
6	Fantastic Art: The Best of Luis Royo more books like this by Antonio Altarriba (Text by) add to wishlist A keepsake large collection of the very best of bestselling fantasy artist Luis Royo's work. see all copies from $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form more books like this by Lucy Fischer add to wishlist Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the illustrations in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs to the glamorous pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazar, Lucy Fischer documents the ubiquity of Art ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.34! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources more books like this by Mr. Jim Harter (Editor) add to wishlist Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting -- an unusually rich sourcebook of poses, costumes, clothing, everyday life. 488 illustrations. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $7.02! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture more books like this by Bram Dijkstra add to wishlist A provocative and absorbing analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the century in the works of the key artists of the age. Illustrated throughout. see all copies from $8.75! new only from $33.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Harem: The World Behind the Veil more books like this by Alev Lytle Croutier add to wishlist This book offers an insight into the harem and harem life, focusing on the famed Seraglio of Topkapi Palace. The author uses her first-hand experience to describe the absolute rule of the sultans, the slave markets and the eunuchs. The book is illustrated with paintings by Delacroix, Ingres and Renoir, Turkish woodcuts, Persian miniatures, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Evolution more books like this by Luis Royo add to wishlist An artist of the spectacular. Each collection sparkles with pieces seen on book covers from around the world. Fantasy, science fiction, eroticism, etc... Royo has devised a special personal mix of media that makes his work so uncannily real, so beguilingly engaging as to make him a best-selling star. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $19.25! \| first editions
12 view cover	Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 the World in Female Form more books like this by Gottfried Fliedl add to wishlist Gustav Klimt - The world "in female form" Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siecle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was ... see all copies from $2.62! new only from $37.71! \| first editions
13 view cover	Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art of Olivia Volume I more books like this by Olivia de Berardinis, Joel Beren (Editor), Olivia de Berardinis (Illustrator) add to wishlist You've seen her art in the pages of Playboy and in dozens of other publications, on calendars, book covers, limited edition prints, greeting cards, and movie posters. Now, for the first time, Olivia's work has been compiled into one deluxe book. Included are over 100 drawings and paintings, many previously unpublished, spanning the past fifteen ... see all copies from $5.42! new only from $22.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Intimate: Nudes more books like this by Marc Baptiste (Photographer) add to wishlist The award-winning and renowned photographer behind the lens of "Beautiful," Marc Baptiste offers readers another very intimate look at women. see all copies from $12.76! new only from $26.38! \| first editions
15 view cover	Saving Graces: Images of Women in European Cemeteries more books like this by David Robinson, Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction by) add to wishlist In many cemeteries, particularly in Europe, one can find 19th-century sculptures of idealized images of women, elaborately posed and sculpted with great care and artistic flair. David Robinson's photographs capture the sensual beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of the ... see all copies from $5.17! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Secrets more books like this by Luis Royo add to wishlist An artist of the spectacular. Each collection sparkles with pieces seen on book covers from around the world. Fantasy, science fiction, eroticism, etc... Royo has devised a special personal mix of media that makes his work so uncannily real, so beguilingly engaging as to make him a best-selling star. see all copies from $3.60! new only from $5.94! \| first editions
17 view cover	Cheesecake Chronicles Volume 1: Art of Olivia more books like this by Olivia de Berardinis, Olivia de Berardinis (Illustrator) add to wishlist The first in a series of books, Olivia's Cheesecake Chronicles, featuring Olivia's art of her favorite models. This volume features cheesecake pinup girl, Rhonda Ridley, cover girl for Olivia's first book Let Them Eat Cheesecake. Over 75% new or unpublished art, with 4 new paintings shown as works in progress to finish. Features a new interview ... see all copies from $7.97! new only from $15.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction more books like this by Carolyn Korsmeyer add to wishlist Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aestheics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the ... see all copies from $14.31! new only from $26.25! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women more books like this by Griselda Pollock add to wishlist This study redefines the American artist Mary Cassatt's status in the Parisian avant-garde and in American art, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory. Cassatt's art explores a "new woman's" perspective on the spaces of modernity: at the theatre, in the drawing-room and garden, in the studio. Admired by Degas ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| SVS
20 view cover	Dinner Party more books like this by Judy Chicago add to wishlist When Judy Chicago's multimedia exhibition "The Dinner Party" opened in the late 1970s, it was hailed as "an icon of feminist art" ("ARTnews"), and has since been seen by a million people worldwide. This new edition celebrates the re-opening of the exhibition in Los Angeles in late 1996. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $193.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representation more books like this by Gen Doy add to wishlist Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from the French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have shaped visual imagery. She ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Feminine Beauty more books like this by Kenneth Clark add to wishlist see all copies from $12.80! first editions
23 view cover	Virtue & Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women more books like this by David Brown add to wishlist This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and a few of men) by Filippo Lippi, Domenico ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $24.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
24	The Metamorphosis of Baubo: Myths of Woman's Sexual Energy more books like this by Winifred M Lubell add to wishlist A pathbreaking study of an archetypal symbol of female power and sexual energy, prevalent in many ancient and modern cultures around the world. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Women and Art: Contested Territory more books like this by Judy Chicago add to wishlist The authors have chosen significant images of women by both male and female artists from over 3000 years of art, and address the many questions which arise: why has art by women found so little public recognition? Have male artists every succeeded in capturing the prismatic essence of the feminine? see all copies from $2.98! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions

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