Women Artists (Art Essentials)

‘Excellent … these essential female figures should be part of our art history, and this book is part of that important re-examination’ Jessica Morgan, Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, Dia Art Foundation Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as an appreciation of its most outstanding figures. Traditionally women have been among art’s favoured objects of representation, while their contributions as art producers have been subordinated to those of men. This book documents women artists in context to offer readers an accessible but rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to the present day.

About the Author

Flavia Frigeri is an art historian and curator, and Teaching Fellow at University College, London. She co-curated the internationally acclaimed exhibition ‘The World Goes Pop’ at Tate Modern in 2015. Frigeri is the author of Tate Introductions: Paul Klee and contributed to the exhibition catalogue she co-edited, The World Goes Pop. She is also the author of Pop Art in the Art Essentials series published by Thames & Hudson.