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American Women Artists, 1935-1970 - Gender, Culture, and Politics (Paperback)
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American Women Artists, 1935-1970 - Gender, Culture, and Politics (Paperback)
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Numerous American women artists built successful professional
careers in the mid-twentieth century while confronting challenging
cultural transitions: shifts in stylistic avant-gardism, harsh
political transformations, and changing gender expectations for
both women and men. These social and political upheavals provoked
complex intellectual and aesthetic tensions. Critical discourses
about style and expressive value were also renegotiated, while
still privileging masculinist concepts of aesthetic authenticity.
In these contexts, women artists developed their careers by
adopting innovative approaches to contemporary subjects,
techniques, and media. However, while a few women working during
these decades have gained significant recognition, many others are
still consigned to historical obscurity. The essays in this volume
take varied approaches to revising this historical silence. Two
focus on evidence of gender biases in several exhibitions and
contemporary critical writings; the rest discuss individual
artists' complex relationships to mainstream developments, with
attention to gender and political biases, cultural innovations, and
the influence of racial/ethnic diversity. Several also explore new
interpretative directions to open alternative possibilities for
evaluating women's aesthetic and formal choices. Through its
complex, nuanced approach to issues of gender and female agency,
this volume offers valuable and exciting new scholarship in
twentieth-century American art history and feminist studies.
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