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The Artemisia Files
Mieke Bal
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Description for The Artemisia Files
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 204 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest though her position in the canon remains precarious, in part because her sensationalized life history has overshadowed her art.
In The Artemisia Files, Mieke Bal and her coauthors look squarely at this early icon ... Read more
One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest though her position in the canon remains precarious, in part because her sensationalized life history has overshadowed her art.
In The Artemisia Files, Mieke Bal and her coauthors look squarely at this early icon ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226035826
SKU
V9780226035826
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