A World of Our Own: Women as Artists since the Renaissance. (Bookmarks).A World of Our Own: Women as Artists since the Renaissance. Frances Borzello. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY: Watson-Guptill (800-451-1741), 2000. Illus., hardcover, 224 pp., $50.00. This well-researched book describes the quest of women artists to gain respect and success in their chosen field. From the sixteenth century to the present, we learn of the gains made over 400 years in what was the male-dominated profession of painting and sculpture. Over 200 illustrations introduce the reader to numerous gifted women artists. The text has been drawn from art historical information greatly enriched with content from diaries, letters, memoirs mem·oir n. 1. An account of the personal experiences of an author. 2. An autobiography. Often used in the plural. 3. A biography or biographical sketch. 4. , and the artists' own testimonials. While we revisit re·vis·it tr.v. re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its To visit again. n. A second or repeated visit. re noted artists of the recent past, from Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) 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. to Louise Bourgeois  This article or section reads like a and may need a .Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's . , the most rewarding material is to be found in the images and biographies of remarkably talented artists from hundreds of years past. The author deserves congratulations for enabling a broader audience to know and enjoy the works of so many gifted, yet little-known, artists. |
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