Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary HistoryNow available in paper! This anthology brings together selections from sixty-one primary source documents_artist's letters, journals, and memoirs; critics' reviews; and minutes and reports of artists' societies and schools_that illuminate the experience of women artists from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the United States and Europe. In addition to material related to the work of such well-known painters and sculptors as Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Rosa Bonheur, Harriet Hosmer, Cecilia Beaux, Marie Bashkirtseff, Berthe Morisot, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Barbara Hepworth, the volume includes material related to the work of amateur artists and women in ceramics and textiles. Cloth edition published in 1991. |
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Louis Petit de Bachaumont Moufle | 25 |
Wives and Artists | 37 |
Salons of 1806 1808 and 1810 | 45 |
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