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In Art and Photography

by Selzer, Anita

Book - 2023

This provides an alternative view of women through the eyes of female artists. This provides an alternative view of women through the eyes of female artists. Show less

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The Passion of Artemesia

by Vreeland, Susan

Book - 2002

"Artemesia Gentileschi was the first and only female artists to achieve success in the seventeenth century." One of her most famous paintings is...Show more "Artemesia Gentileschi was the first and only female artists to achieve success in the seventeenth century." One of her most famous paintings is Judith Slaying Holofernes, which is thought to be aimed at the man who raped her. This surveys her work during the Baroque Period. -www.theartstory.org Show less

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Faith Ringgold

by Ringgold, Faith

Book - 2022

"Faith Ringgold was a pioneering painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher and activist whose powerful works address issues ...Show more "Faith Ringgold was a pioneering painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher and activist whose powerful works address issues of race, gender, and social justice. Ringgold’s innovative use of quilting and storytelling techniques revolutionized the art world by bridging the gap between fine art and craft traditions." Faithringold.com Show less

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Augusta Savage

Renaissance Woman

by Hayes, Jeffreen M.

Book - 2018

Augusta Savage was a prominent sculptor and Art Teacher during the Harlem Renaissance. Augusta Savage was a prominent sculptor and Art Teacher during the Harlem Renaissance. Show less

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Judy Chicago

Herstory

Book - 2023

"Judy Chicago is a feminist artist and is best known for her work The Dinner Party (1974 to 1979), which celebrates women’s history through place set...Show more "Judy Chicago is a feminist artist and is best known for her work The Dinner Party (1974 to 1979), which celebrates women’s history through place settings designed for 39 important women. The monumental, collaborative project incorporates traditional women’s crafts such as embroidery, needlepoint, and ceramics." -National Museum of Women in the Arts Show less

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Jenny Holzer

by Holzer, Jenny

Book - 2008

Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist that uses text in her work, including large scale installations and electric light displays. - www.moma.org Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist that uses text in her work, including large scale installations and electric light displays. - www.moma.org Show less

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Mickalene Thomas

All About Love

by Thomas, Mickalene

Book - 2024

Mickalene Thomas is inspired by art history as well as popular culture, Thomas’s works allude to sources ranging from 19th-century French painting to 1970...Show more Mickalene Thomas is inspired by art history as well as popular culture, Thomas’s works allude to sources ranging from 19th-century French painting to 1970s Blaxploitation films. Her acknowledged influences include Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse, as well as Romare Bearden and Pam Grier. -National Museum of Women in the Arts Show less

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Lee Krasner

Living Colour

by Krasner, Lee

Book - 2019

"Krasner's Little Image paintings, thickly painted with abstract symbols, are today considered among her most significant contributions to Abstract E...Show more "Krasner's Little Image paintings, thickly painted with abstract symbols, are today considered among her most significant contributions to Abstract Expressionism." Lee Krasner was long overshadowed by her husband, Jackson Pollock, but she was a successful artist before meeting Pollock. - National Museum of Women in the Arts Show less

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Kara Walker

White Shadows in Blackface

by Hobbs, Robert Carleton

Book - 2023

"Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide." - www.karawalkerstudio.com "Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide." - www.karawalkerstudio.com Show less

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Betye Saar

Black Doll Blues

by Saar, Betye

Book - 2022

"Betye Saar's first works were color etchings, but in the late sixties, she changed direction after attending an exhibition of boxes by Joseph Cornel...Show more "Betye Saar's first works were color etchings, but in the late sixties, she changed direction after attending an exhibition of boxes by Joseph Cornell. Drawing on a childhood interest in mysticism and the occult, she began a series of boxes based on African and Oceanic myths. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., prompted her to produce a second group of works based on racial slurs common in advertising and stereotypes of blacks preserved by white folklore. " - Smithsonian American Art Museum Show less

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Cindy Sherman

by Respini, Eva

Book - 2012

"In most of her works, Sherman is model, photographer, and director. She regularly alters her appearance beyond recognition through makeup, prostheti...Show more "In most of her works, Sherman is model, photographer, and director. She regularly alters her appearance beyond recognition through makeup, prosthetics, and costumes. She draws her personas from a range of sources, including fairytales, art history, film noir, and the fashion world. Her use of costume and makeup challenged the way in which portraiture was considered." - National Museum of Women in the Arts Show less

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Barbara Kruger

Book - 2010

"Kruger has said, “I try to make work that joins the seductions of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.”1 Through a canny combina...Show more "Kruger has said, “I try to make work that joins the seductions of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.”1 Through a canny combination of imagery and text appropriated from magazines, television, video, and newspapers, Kruger's practice, spanning more than four decades, challenges how we assign meaning to visual signifiers of faith, morality, and power." - www.moma.org Show less

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Maya Lin

Thinking With Her Hands

by Rubin, Susan Goldman

Book - 2017

"Trained as an architect and an artist, Lin’s work encompasses memorial designs, architectural works, and large-scale environmental installations. Us...Show more "Trained as an architect and an artist, Lin’s work encompasses memorial designs, architectural works, and large-scale environmental installations. Using water and natural landscapes as a throughline between her disparate practices, Lin’s work touches on themes of memory and time, exploring how we experience and relate to our environment and surroundings." art21.org Show less

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Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Streaming Video - 2022

"Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as...Show more "Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. " Celmins attended Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. - tate.org.uk Show less

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Frida Kahlo

The Painter and Her Work

by Kahlo, Frida

Book - 2022

Frida Kahlo is one of the world's most well know artists. "Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of...Show more Frida Kahlo is one of the world's most well know artists. "Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. She insisted, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."' - frida-kahlo-foundation.org Show less

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Fierce Poise

Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

by Nemerov, Alexander

eBook - 2021

"Helen Frankenthaler has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generat...Show more "Helen Frankenthaler has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting." www.frankenthalerfoundation.org Show less

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Runaway Girl

The Artist Louise Bourgeois

by Greenberg, Jan

Book - 2003

Louise Bourgeois is a French American painter and sculptor started off with abstracted figuration instilled with psychological and symbolic content. Later she incorporated feminist themes into her work. - www.guggenheim.org Louise Bourgeois is a French American painter and sculptor started off with abstracted figuration instilled with psychological and symbolic content. Later she incorporated feminist themes into her work. - www.guggenheim.org Show less

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Alice Neel

People Come First

by Neel, Alice

Book - 2021

Alice Neel was a painter that painted the people and the world around her from the 1920s through the 1980s, a time during which figurative painting was devalued and marginalized." - www.moma.org Alice Neel was a painter that painted the people and the world around her from the 1920s through the 1980s, a time during which figurative painting was devalued and marginalized." - www.moma.org Show less

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Cassatt

Mothers and Children

Book - 2019

"Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later ex...Show more "Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children." marycassatt.org Show less

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