Synopses & Reviews
At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women-including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor-and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century.
Synopsis
Updated to include new artists' voices of the 1990s: The unparalleled record of the contributions of women artists to American art of the twentieth century.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 562-573) and index.
About the Author
Eleanor Munro has published essays and art criticism in Art in America, Ms., The New Republic, and the New York Times. Among her other books is Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter. She lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
Methods and matriarchs: A century of history and the new woman artist ; Mary Cassatt ; Georgia O'Keeffe. -- Women of the first wave, elders of the century including Hedda Sterne and Sari Dienes: Lee Krasner ; Alice Neel ; Louise Nevelson ; Isabel Bishop ; Louise Bourgeois ; Helen Lundeberg ; Jeanne Reynal ; Alma W. Thomas. -- Women of the second wave, mavericks at midway including Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Fay Lanser: Helen Frankenthaler ; Lila Katzen ; Joan Mitchell ; Elaine de Kooning ; Nell Blaine ; Miriam Schapiro ; June Wayne ; Mary Frank. -- Women of the third wave, sisters of the crossroads including Elise Asher and Sheila de Bretteville: Anne Truitt ; Lenore Tawney ; Sylvia Stone ; Beverly Pepper ; Betye Saar ; Sheila Hicks ; Barbara Chase-Riboud ; Lee Bontecou. -- Women of the fourth wave, twenty years after including Maya Lin, Kiki Smith, Julie Taymor, Janet Saad-Cook. -- Afterwords: 1979-2000.