Singular Women Writing the Artist [Paperback]

In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historiansall of them womenprobe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present.Singular Womenproposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach affects the way in which research progresses and stories are told. These thirteen essays on specific artists, from the Renaissance to the present day, address their work and history to examine how each has been inserted into or left out of the history of art. The authors go beyond an analysis of the past to propose new strategies for considering the contributions of women to the visual arts, strategies that take into account the idiosyncratic, personal, and limited rhetoric that confines all writers.

Kristen Fredericksonis an independent scholar and curator who has taught Art History at Bryn Mawr College, Hunter College, Seton Hall University, the New York Academy of Art, and Christie's Education. She is Director of the Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art Gallery in New York.Sarah E. Webb's installation and sculptural work is exhibited nationally. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester.

An interesting and original collection. A must for all those interested in women artists and the women who have written about them. Linda Nochlin, author ofRepresenting Women

Kristen Frederickson and Sarah Webb have provided us with a missing link, a truly feminist art history that connects with the work done in the 1970s and thankfully ignores the 'post-feminist' hiatus.Singular Womenis a model for future scholarship on women's art. If only the books it inspires are as rigorous, vigorous, varied, and readable as this one. Lucy Lippard, author ofThe Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art

The most provocative, challenging, and intimate writinglc