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American Dreamer: The Art of Philip C.Curtis by Chadwick, Whitney, Ehrlich, Susan, et al, Ballinger, James K.
Category: Books
Born in 1907, Philip Curtis' life and work have spanned the entire 20th century. His paintings present an imagined vision of America in moods that echo surrealism and magic realism.
Farewell to the Muse - Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick
Category: Art Instructional
Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be a young, ambitious woman during an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, art historian Whitney Chadwick charts the lives of five female surrealists--connecting their experiences with art, friendship, a ...Show more
Significant Others : Creativity and Intimate Partnership by Whitney Chadwick; Isabelle de Courtivron
Category: Art and Design
Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such ...Show more
The Militant Muse - Love, War and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick
Category: Art and Design
The Militant Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose educational, philosophical and literary backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1 ...Show more
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick
Category: Art and Design
Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick ch ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick; Dawn Ades (Foreword by)
Category: Art and Design
This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, became an embodiment of their age as they strugg ...Show more
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