Waubonsee Community College

The female gaze, women artists making their world, edited by Robert Cozzolino with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Linda Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna C. Chave, Robert Cozzolino, Anna Havemann, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton, Michele Wallace

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330)

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

The female gaze

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edited by Robert Cozzolino with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Linda Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna C. Chave, Robert Cozzolino, Anna Havemann, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton, Michele Wallace

women artists making their world

"In response to the poor representation of women in art galleries and museums, Philadelphia-based collector Linda Lee Alter decided in the 1980s to focus on art by women. The result, now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an extraordinarily diverse and powerful collection of nearly 500 objects by some of the most influential female artists of the past 50 years. Emphasizing contemporary living artists, but including major works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and others, Alter formed her collection with the intent of giving it to a public institution in order to make women artists more visible. This gorgeously illustrated volume celebrates the collection and its legacy by bringing together leading scholars of feminism, and modern and contemporary art to discuss how the artists in Alter's collection saw and transformed the world. Among the essays are discussions of the impact of feminism in Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay area; self-portraiture by women in the 1970s and 1980s; the legacy of Elizabeth Catlett on younger African American artists; collaborative practice among women; an interview with Linda Lee Alter; and an appreciation by artist Diane Burko."--Publisher's description