American Women Artists, 1935-1970
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African American Women Artists
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Aliza Edelman
American Abstract Artists
American Women Artists
art and gender
art and politics
avant-garde movements
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Christina Weyl
Closed Form Vessels
Composition Board
CPUSA
cultural agency
culture studies
Cynthia Fowler
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exhibition criticism
Federal Art Project
feminist art history
Galvanized Steel Wire
Gelatin Silver Print
gender norms
gender studies
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Langa
Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes
Joanna Gardner-Huggett
Judson Dance Theater
Julia Thecla
Krystal R. Hauseur
Louise Nevelson
M. Melissa Wolfe
Mary Caroline Simpson
Mary McGuire
Melanie Anne Herzog
midcentury modernism
MoMA Exhibition
Native Women Artists
Paula Wisotzki
Princeton University Art Museum
racial diversity in art
Santa Fe Indian School
Schneemann
Seth Feman
sexism
Siobhan M. Conaty
twentieth century
United States
University Art Museum
Urban Artistic Communities
Wall Hangings
Women Artists
women artists professional challenges
women's studies
Works Progress Administration's Federal
Works Progress Administration’s Federal
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781472432827
- Weight: 778g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Helen Langa, Associate Professor of American Art at American University, published Radical Art. Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York in 2004. Her publications have focused on American prints, cultural democracy, and women/lesbian artists.
Paula Wisotzki is Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago and a specialist in American Art of the 1930s and 40s. Her recent research and publications are centered on Dorothy Dehner's early career.
