Eminent Women Artists
Contents: Introduction. 1. Aleksandra Ekster. 2. Alice Prin. 3. Anne Truitt. 4. Artemisia Gentileschi. 5. Beatrice Wood. 6. Bridget Riley. 7. Camille Claudel. 8. Carola Unterberger-Probst. 9. Catarina van Hemessen. 10. Cheri Gaulke. 11. Christine Borland. 12. Cindy Sherman. 13. Countess de Castiglione. 14. Damali Ayo. 15. Elizabeth Siddal. 16. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. 17. Emily Carr. 18. Georgia O'Keeffe. 19. Gillian Wearing. 20. Grandma Moses. 21. Helen Frankenthaler. 22. Helene Black. 23. Hilda van Stockum. 24. Jane Burden. 25. Jane Frank. 26. Jenny Saville. 27. Jessica Gibson. 28. Jill Gibson. 29. Judith Leyster. 30. Julia Margaret Cameron. 31. Juno Doran. 32. Lavinia Fontana. 33. Lee Bontecou. 34. Lee Miller. 35. Levina Teerlinc. 36. Louise Bourgeois. 37. Louise Breslau. 38. Lucy Bacon. 39. Lyubov Popova. 40. Madge Gill. 41. Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. 42. Marie Bashkiresteff. 43. Marie Euphrosyne Spartali. 44. Marie Vorobieff. 45. Marion Wachtel. 46. Marisol Escobar. 47. Mary Beale. 48. Mary Cassatt. 49. Mary Moser. 50. Mary Vaux Walcott. 51. Mong-Lan. 52. Natalia Goncharova. 53. Nina Genke-Meller. 54. Nina Hamnett. 55. Paula Modersphn-Becker. 56. Paula Rego. 57. Properzia de Rossi. 58. Rachel Ruysch. 59. Rachel Whiteread. 60. Remedios Varo. 61. Rosa Bonheur. 62. Rosalba Carriera. 63. Ruth Rix. 64. Sandra Blow. 65. Sara. 66. Sarah Lucas. 67. Seraphima Blonskaya. 68. Sheila Hicks. 69. Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. 70. Sofonisba Anguissola. 71. Sophie Calle. 72. Sophie Pemberton. 73. Stella Bowen. 74. Stella Vine. 75. Suzanne Valadon. 76. Tacita Dean. 77. Tamara de Lempicka. 78. Tina Modotti. 79. Tracey Emin. 80. Ursula von Rydingsvard. 81. Vanessa Beecroft. 82. Vanessa Bell. 83. Varvara Stepanova. 84. Veronica Ruiz de Velasco. 85. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. 86. Yayoi Kusama. 87. Yoko Ono. 88. Yolanda Lopez. 89. Zaha Hadid. 90. Zinaida Serabryakova.
"This volume, 'Eminent Women Artists', contains brief life sketches, contributions and achievements of 90 leading women artists mostly belonging to America and European countries.
In the history of art, the women artists had to struggle hard at a time when in the Medieval and Renaissance period art had been the exclusive domain of men. Women were not encouraged in this field. Though basically female mind had always been imaginative, artistic and creative.
There are many references that the womenfolk of the primitive days painted various art objects during festivities known as folk art which has a pretty long tradition. Art is creation of both men and women's imaginative mind. The superstitions, rituals, customs and beliefs have encouraged the women to creative production. Early art, from cave art drawings to folk art is manifestation of emotions influenced by natural surroundings and nature worship. In the stone age civilization, woman perfected herself to primitive folk art. The sense of art no doubt, is materialized expression of man and woman's delight in beauty.
This publication will certainly be welcomed by the art lovers, general readers and specially by those interested in knowing the artistic genius of the women artists." (jacket)
