This book is included in Artnet’s 10 Essential New Books on Women Artists to Add to Your Bookshelf Now. In sum, Nieriker’s writings deserve further attention and interpretation because her texts give voice to critical social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, that still resonate today. This book examines the art and travel writings of Nieriker, providing more insight to the fields of nineteenth-century American art. Fortunately, May was able to make trips to London and Paris to immerse herself more fully in the art world.
Like other American women in the later nineteenth century, despite her artistic talent May Alcott Nieriker was unable, due to her gender, to receive the advanced training and exhibition opportunities in the USA that she needed to become a notable professional painter. Thérèse Schwartze: Painting for a Living , by Cora Hollema and Pieternel Kouwenhoven. Read Ann Landi’s review of the book for The Wall Street Journal and Olivia McEwan’s review for Hyperallergic. This book is an Athena Art Foundation Pick of the Month, and leads the list in Artnet’s 10 Essential New Books on Women Artists to Add to Your Bookshelf Now. Sheila Barker weaves the story with in-depth discussions of key artworks, in order to portray the developments in Gentileschi’s approach to her craft and expressive goals and techniques. Bringing to light recent archival discoveries and newly attributed paintings, this book highlights Gentileschi’s original engagement with emerging feminist notions of the value and dignity of womanhood. Publisher: Lund Humphries, 2022 North American publisher, Getty Publications.Įxamined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist’s pictorial intelligence and high-profile career. Adult non-fictionĪrtemisia G entileschi ,by Sheila Barker. Read the reviews in School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly. This inspiring picture book about Rosa Bonheur, the most famous female painter of her century, is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Defying convention, Rosa went on to become the most celebrated artist of her time art collectors, museums, and galleries around the world purchased her paintings. She wore pants, rode horses astride, and often broke society’s rules. Rosa Bonheur was born in 1822 in France at a time when young women had limited options beyond being a wife and mother. In an ode to underrepresented women everywhere, award-winning illustrator Ruth Sanderson tells the story of French artist Rosa Bonheur in this picture book biography.