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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 $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master by Ruth Butler Publisher Comments Looks at the lives of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret, the wives and models of French artists Paul... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose Publisher Comments In this bestselling finalist for the National Book Award, Prose explores the lives of such noted artists as Lewis Carroll, George Balanchine, and John Lennon, and the women who inspired their greatest achievements. Photos.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Feminist Art and the Maternal by Andrea Liss Synopsis Feminist motherhood is a surprisingly unexplored subject. In fact, feminism and motherhood have been often thought of as incompatible. Profound, provocative, and innovative, Feminist Art and the Maternal is the first work to critically examine the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Places of Their Own : Carr, O'keeffe, Kahlo (00 Edition) by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall Synopsis This work compares the art, lives and achievements of three great artists of the Americas: Emily Carr of Canada, Georgia O'Keeffe of the USA and Frida Kahlo of Mexico. Each became her country's pre-eminent woman painter in the 20th century, and all... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer Publisher Comments If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier Publisher Comments Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010 by Barbara Matilsky Publisher Comments Coinciding with the centennial of women's suffrage in Washington State, Show of Hands surveys the contributions made by women to the legacy of Pacific Northwest art. Highlighting work in all media by artists from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Impressionist women by Edward Lucie Smith Publisher Comments Sumptuously illustrated with many color and black and white photographs, Impressionist Women is a fascinating insight into the lives of an extraordinary group of artists living in a world soon to vanish forever.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women Impressionists by Ingrid Pfeiffer Publisher Comments The female members of the nineteenth-century Impressionist movement are usually painted out of official art history, although Edouard Manet, for one, testified to the talents of his friends Berthe Morisot (whose Harbor at Lorient of 1869 he so admired... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Women Art & Society 2ND Edition Revised & Expand by Whitney Chadwick Book News Annotation Challenging art historical assumptions that classify women artists, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, as exceptions who "transcended" their sex in achieving major works of art, Chadwick (art, San Francisco State U.) re-examines the works themselves and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Art & Society 3RD Edition by Whitney Chadwick Publisher Comments This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Solitaire: Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel by Helen Molesworth Publisher Comments This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930–1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel (b. 1932) are each intensely private and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick Publisher Comments This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Women Artists by Uta Grosenick Publisher Comments Don't think that because there are no male artists in this book that it's any less a comprehensive guide to 20th-century art and art movements. And don't expect a quaint, lightweight offering: this hefty baby weighs in at 576 pages and features more than... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art by Cornelia Butler Publisher Comments This landmark survey represents the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists. Featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, including both MoMA curators and... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Originals American Women Artists by Eleanor Munro Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Feminine by Richard Kehl Publisher Comments This book is an essay on the feminine, composed almost entirely of paintings and photographs of women. On the juxtaposition, film director Sergei Eisenstein notes "By the comination of two 'depictables' is achieved the representation of something that is... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art Rage Us Art & Writing By Women With by Jill Eikenberry Publisher Comments In a unique collaboration, The Breast Cancer Fund, the American Cancer Society, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation invited artists and writers across the nation who had faced breast cancer to submit their work. The result is Art.Rage.Us., a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) by Jo Anna Isaak Publisher Comments Feminism and Contemporary Art discusses the work of individual women artists within the context of the wider social, physical and political world. Jo Anna Isaak looks at the work of a diverse range of artists from the United States, the former Soviet... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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