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Women Can't Paint - Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
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Women Can't Paint - Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
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In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'.
Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is
prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study
of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are few aesthetic
differences in men and women's painting, but that men's art is
valued at up to 80 per cent more than women's. Indeed, the power of
masculinity is such that when men sign their work it goes up in
value, yet when women sign their work it goes down. Museums, the
author attests, are also complicit in this vicious cycle as they
collect tokenist female artwork which impinges upon its artists'
market value. An essential text for students and teachers,
Gorrill's book is provocative and challenges existing methodologies
whilst introducing shocking evidence. She proves how the price of
being a woman impacts upon all forms of artistic currency, be it
social, cultural or economic and in the vanguard of the 'Me Too'
movement calls for the artworld to take action.
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