Women artists and modernism

A collection of essays on the theme of women in 20th century art history, with particular reference to their position in relation to modernism. Each of the following essays is abstracted in this issue of ABM: `Women artists, modernity and suffrage cultures in Britain and Germany 1890-1920' by Rosemary Betterton; `Modern women, modern spaces: women, metropolitan culture and Vorticism' by Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry; `Black awakening: gender and representation in the Harlem Renaissance' by Pauline de Souza; `Performing the picture or painting the other: Romaine Brooks, Gluck and the question of decadence in 1923' by Bridget Elliott; `Elizabeth McCausland: art, politics and sexuality' by Susan Platt; `Hepworth and her critics' by Deepwell; `Cornubia: gender, geography and genealogy in St Ives modernism' by Nedira Yakir; `Talking back: an exchange with Marcel Duchamp' by Moira Roth; `Making a mess: women's bane, women's pleasure' by Joanna Frueh; `Beauty, the universal, the divine: Irigaray's re-valuings' by Hilary Robinson; and `Desiring daughters' by Renee Baert.

ISBN-13: 978-0719050824
ISBN-10: 0719050820
Date revised - 2013-06-13; SuppNotes - Manchester, England; New York: Manchester University Press, distributed in the U. S. A. by St. Martin's Press. 1998, ix+206p, 39 illus; Last updated - 2013-06-17