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Power Up: Female Pop Art by Angela Stief Publisher Comments Despite the frequent mockery by Pop artists of the Abstract Expressionists' machismo and swagger, the best-known artists of the Pop era (as art history has defined it) were men. Power Up explores a generation of female artists working in the Pop art... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Idols of Perversity Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture by Bram Dijkstra Publisher Comments At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers by Lisa Pearson Publisher Comments A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Women Art & Power & Other Essays by Linda Nochlin Publisher Comments Women, Art, and Power—seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history—brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art and Feminism by Helena Reckitt Publisher Comments This exciting series situates the work of individual artists within the bigger picture of modern art. The uninitiated reader and the scholar alike need look no further to understand the prevailing art tendencies of our time. The development of modern and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle by Kathleen A Pyne Publisher Comments This opulently illustrated book reveals how Alfred Stieglitz's search for a pure, essential "woman in art" led him to several women before his vision found ultimate expression in Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz portrayed as the shining, liberated... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $6.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Women Building History (11 Edition) by Wanda M. Corn Publisher Comments This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman's Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $38.00 Used - Hardcover
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Our City Dreams by Chiara Clementine Publisher Comments Our City Dreams is Chiara Clemente's affecting love letter to art's capital city. A companion to Clemente's documentary of the same name, which received rave reviews when it debuted in theaters in 2009 (New York Magazine described it as a first-rate... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Icons of Women Artists (Icons) by Elke Linda Buchholz Publisher Comments This sumptuously illustrated book surveys five hundred years of artistic output from a pantheon of women who broke rules, defied convention, and paved the way for generations to follow. Why over the course of history have so few women been recognized as "... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin by Ruth Butler Publisher Comments Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Representing Women (Interplay, Arts, History, Theory) by Linda Nochlin Publisher Comments Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent mothers - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting. This text brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on the subject, as she considers work by Miller... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 (Gender & American Culture) by Kirsten Swinth Publisher Comments Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late nineteenth century. According to census figures, the number of women among the ranks of professional artists rose from 10 percent to nearly 50 percent between 1870 and 1890.... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World of Our Own Women As Artists Sinc by Frances Borzello Publisher Comments This stirring account documents the centuries-long struggle of gifted women who confronted the exclusionary tactics of a male-dominated art establishment but pressed ahead undaunted to gain public acceptance as sought-after professional artists. The... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Voicing our visions :writings by women artists by Mara Witzling Publisher Comments Twenty leading women artists of the 20th century outline the personal and aesthetic issues that shaped their private lives. Includes contributions from Georgia O'Keefe and Barbara Hepworth.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women, creativity, and the arts :critical and autobiographical perspectives by Apostolos Cappadona Book News Annotation A collection of essays on women and creativity, containing classic texts in which authors voice fundamental questions about cultural perceptions of women, gender, sexuality, and creativity. In Part I, psychologists, art historians, literary critics... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections by Diana Burges Fuller Publisher Comments An essay collection surveying women artist's in California and their contribution to shaping the California cultural profile. It is fully illustrated and interspersed with poetry and interviews.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce by Karen Moss Synopsis A celebration of the careers of four extraordinary American women artists. This is the first publication to bring together the work of these four important American women Modernists.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love by Alice A Carter Synopsis This richly illustrated biography traces the lives of three talented women artists at the turn of the century who took over the Red Rose Inn, a picturesque old estate on Philadelphia's Main Line, and made a pact to live together forever--until one of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art by Griselda Pollock Publisher Comments The publication of 'Vision and Difference' marked a milestone in the development of modern art history. Its introduction of a feminist perspective into this largely male-oriented discipline made shockwaves that are still felt forcefully today. Drawing... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Love Me: Post/Feminist Positions of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection by Matthias Winzen Publisher Comments Description: Just Love Me--with its title taken directly from a late 90s neon sign by Tracey Emin--reveals how complex and differentiated female identity constructions have become today. Classically assigned roles have broken down. Radical feminist... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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