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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
Category: Art
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette - Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
Category: Art
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul ...Show more
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