women's self-portraits
Author: Frances Borzello
ISBN: 9780810941885
This fresh, richly illustrated book is the first in-depth presentation of how women artists have chosen to picture themselves. As Frances Borzello demonstrates, the number and variety of women's self-portraits are astonishing, as are the brashness and timidity, the pride and wit, and the intense emotions that stare out from these pages.Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Borzello reconstructs an overlooked genre and provides essential contextual information on the artists. She moves on to 16th-century Italy, where Sofonisba Anguissola recorded her features from adolescence to old age. Later, women from Artemisia Gentileschi (who depicted herself as the personification of painting) to Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun conveyed, each in their own way, ambition, ideas of femininity, and passion for their chosen field.Seeing Ourselves concludes with the breaking of taboos in the 20th century. Alice Neel's nude self-portrait at the age of 80, Frida Kahlo pier
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Publish Date: 1998
Subjects: Self-perception in women, Women artists/ Portraits, Women artists/ Psychology, Women artists, Art / General, Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Art / Subjects & Themes / General, Art / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, Psychology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Visual/Performing Arts)