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13 women artists children should know
\"This book introduces you to thirteen great women artists. You'll learn about the dreams they followed throughout their lives and discover how they were able to fulfill them. You'll find out where and when they lived, and what they managed to achieve with their art. This book includes a timeline, showing you important events that happened during the lifetime of each artist. At the back of the book you will also find explanations of terms and names which are marked with an asterisk* in the text. Have fun reading!\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans.Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political, and economic ideas that denied them.
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Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
\"This book chronicles the lives and art of 15 often overlooked female artists from the Renaissance to the modern day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ida Rubinstein: Dancing Decadence and “The Art of the Beautiful Pose”
Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960) was a mystery; variously viewed as a Hebrew princess, a queen of mime and a female dandy in the guise of a dancer, she performed both on and off the stage of high society in the early 1900s, making her mark on the international public and contributing to changing attitudes about women, art and dance movement aesthetics. Virtually untrained as a dancer, but mistress of the seductive gesture learned from the West (but honed in the East), Rubinstein knew just how to capture the Western eye, and she spent a fortune playing to it. The luxury of extreme wealth certainly helped open the doors to her artistic fame, and she was fortunate to be included in the sensational triumphs of the Ballets Russes as it was received by a sophisticated and enthusiastic Parisian audience. In this paper, I examine the sources from which Rubinstein received the inspiration and training that led to her artistic successes and discuss the context of her approaches to movement, gesture and spectacle. Overall, I reflect upon the various ways in which her Jewishness and privileged upbringing in the twilight of Imperial Russia affected (or did not affect) her decadent lifestyle and enhanced and/or limited aspects of her remarkable career as a dance performer, producer and influential patron of the arts. To what extent was she seen to “perform” the Jewess with its stereotyped roles of temptress and exotic other, reflecting the fin de siècle figure of la belle Juive with its powerful collapsing of distance between staged representation and real life?
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Singular women : writing the artist
In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians--all of them women--probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes 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.
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The artists
\"The artists brings together the stories of 48 brilliant woman artists who made huge yet unacknowledged contributions to the history of art, including Camille Claudel, the extraordinarily talented sculptor who was always unfairly overshadowed by her lover, Rodin; Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who has been claimed as the true originator of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain; and Ana Mendieta, the Cuban refugee who approached violence against women through her performance art before her own untimely death\"--Provided by publisher.
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Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran
In Iran, since the mid–nineteenth century, one issue has been a common concern: how should Iran become modern? More than a century of struggle for or against modernity has constituted much of the social, political, and cultural history of the country. In the decades since the 1979 Revolution, the question has become even more critical. In Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran, Talattof finds that the process of modernity never truly unfolded, due in large part to Iran’s reluctance to embrace the seminal subjects of gender and sexuality. Talattof’s approach reflects a unique look at modernity as not only advances in industry and economy but also advances toward an open, intellectual discourse on sexuality. Exploring the life and times of Shahrzad, a dancer, actress, filmmaker, and poet, Talattof illuminates the country’s struggle with modernity and the ideological, traditional, and religious resistance against it. Born in 1946, she performed in several theater productions, became an acclaimed film star in the 1970s, and pursued a career as a journalist and poet. Following the revolution, she was imprisoned and eventually became homeless on the streets of Tehran. Her success and eventual decline as a female artist and entertainer illustrate the conflict between modernity and tradition and Iran’s failure to embrace an overt expression of sexuality. Talattof also profiles several other female artists of the 1970s, analyzing their lives and work as windows through which to examine what Iranian culture allowed and what it repudiated.
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Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
\"Brief, illustrated bios of women creators around the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Shadow Woman
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
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